{"id":183406,"date":"2026-04-02T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:08:32","slug":"nypd-shoots-man-in-bronx-who-police-say-aimed-possible-gun-at-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183406\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD shoots man in Bronx who police say aimed possible gun at officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"036lq\">Police shot a man in the Bronx early Thursday who pointed what appeared to be a gun at officers, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5crd9\">Officials said the shooting happened on Willis Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven around 7:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9sut3\">At least one officer fired at the man, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6cgv0\">Emergency medical workers took him to Lincoln Hospital, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"c0ajm\">Police said they do not know his current condition.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6dq4a\">They <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2039672709588664498?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">asked people to avoid the area<\/a> and expect heavy traffic as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"111t7\">This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police shot a man in the Bronx early Thursday who pointed what appeared to be a gun at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-183406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/183406","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=183406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}