{"id":176451,"date":"2026-03-26T20:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176451\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:31:41","slug":"man-21-fighting-for-his-life-after-he-was-shot-in-the-head-in-the-bronx-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176451\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 21, fighting for his life after he was shot in the head in the Bronx: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NORWOOD, the Bronx (PIX11) \u2014 A 21-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was shot in the head near a Bronx bus stop Thursday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was shot close to a busy bus stop near Jerome and Bainbridge avenues in Norwood at around 9:48 a.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.pix11.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Get ongoing crime and safety coverage on our homepage;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;Get ongoing crime and safety coverage on our homepage&quot;}\"> Get ongoing crime and safety coverage on our homepage <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sources said a suspect was taken into custody, but the charges were pending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident comes as the NYPD announced that more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/more-1-000-guns-taken-171921398.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:1,000 guns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;1,000 guns&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1,000 guns<\/a> were taken off the streets this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mira Wassef is an award-winning reporter who has covered news and sports in the NYC area for more than a decade. She joined the PIX11 News digital team in 2022. See more of her work <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/mira-wassef\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here.;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;here.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;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;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORWOOD, the Bronx (PIX11) \u2014 A 21-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was shot in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,951,9,24,63,103,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-176451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-critical-condition","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\/176451","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=176451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}