{"id":176262,"date":"2026-03-26T17:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:41:40","slug":"man-21-clings-to-life-after-being-shot-in-head-in-bronx-assault-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176262\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 21, clings to life after being shot in head in Bronx assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 21-year-old man was clinging to life Thursday after he was shot in the head on a Bronx street corner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;police&quot;}\" class=\"link \">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting happened just three hours before Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch proudly announced that the NYPD <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2037204751524229422?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:has taken 1,000 guns off the street;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;has taken 1,000 guns off the street&quot;}\" class=\"link \">has taken 1,000 guns off the street<\/a> so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was on the corner of Jerome and Bainbridge Aves. in Norwood around 9:45 a.m. when the gunman stormed up to him and opened fire, witnesses told police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EMS rushed the victim, suffering from a head wound, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbhny.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:St. Barnabas Hospital;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;St. Barnabas Hospital&quot;}\" class=\"link \">St. Barnabas Hospital<\/a>, where he remained in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The gunman ran off, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Responding officers took someone into custody at the scene, a police source with knowledge of the case said. He was being questioned by detectives Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No charges were immediately filed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As of Sunday, cops had investigated 121 shootings in the city, one fewer than this time last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After a record-breaking cold snap in January that contributed to a drop in crime, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shootings jumped by 20% in the last four weeks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;shootings jumped by 20% in the last four weeks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">shootings jumped by 20% in the last four weeks<\/a> compared to the same period last year, from 39 to 47, according to NYPD statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old man was clinging to life Thursday after he was shot in the head on a Bronx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[71560,128,5302,9,24,63,103,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-176262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bainbridge-aves","tag-bronx","tag-jessica-tisch","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176262","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=176262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}