{"id":155701,"date":"2026-03-06T21:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155701\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:42:32","slug":"man-27-fatally-shot-in-back-of-head-in-apparently-targeted-attack-at-nycha-building-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155701\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 27, fatally shot in back of head in apparently targeted attack at NYCHA building: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old man was fatally shot in the back of the head in an apparently targeted attack inside a Bronx housing project building early Friday, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim was slain execution-style at around 6:35 a.m. inside the Forest Houses NYCHA building on East 165th Street near Tinton Avenue in Morrisania, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed in critical condition to Lincoln Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38698493\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/765-e-165th-st-122921022.jpg\" alt=\"The victim took a bullet to the head around 6:35 a.m. inside the Forest Houses building on East 165th Street near Tinton Avenue in Morrisania, police said.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-38698493\"  \/>The victim took a bullet to the head around 6:35 a.m. inside the Forest Houses building on East 165th Street near Tinton Avenue in Morrisania, police said.\u00a0 Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The victim had an \u201cinteraction\u201d with the two suspects before the shooting, which was not believed to be random, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both male suspects were last seen wearing all black with hoods, and one was spotted wearing a backpack, law enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neither had been caught by Friday afternoon, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man was fatally shot in the back of the head in an apparently targeted attack inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,1027,57,9,24,63,305,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-155701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-homicide","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nycha","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}