{"id":166142,"date":"2026-03-17T13:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166142\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:25:33","slug":"bronx-shooting-man-shot-by-off-duty-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166142\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx shooting: Man shot by off-duty NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mvybw1a2948yazkm.jpg\" alt=\"Man shot by off-duty cop in the Bronx\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; A man was shot in the head by an off-duty NYPD officer Monday night in the Bronx, police said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The shooting happened just after 9 p.m. outside 167 W. 231st St. in the Kingsbridge section.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/man-shot-by-off-duty-cop-in-the-bronx-2-e1773752622735.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Authorities said the off-duty officer fired, striking the 30-year-old man in the head.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The circumstances leading up to the shooting were not immediately clear, including whether it may have stemmed from a robbery attempt or another encounter.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/man-shot-by-off-duty-cop-in-the-bronx-e1773752602377.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where he remained in critical condition Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">It&#8217;s unclear what led to the shooting. The identities of the individuals involved remain unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/bronx\/kingsbridge\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kingsbridge<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8211; A man was shot in the head by an off-duty NYPD officer Monday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,850,12119,9,24,12,56,63,129,131,130,618],"class_list":["post-166142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-kingsbridge","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166142","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=166142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}