{"id":184845,"date":"2026-04-03T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184845\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:02:11","slug":"bronx-man-76-shoots-neighbor-55-years-his-junior-to-death-over-long-time-beef-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184845\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx man, 76, shoots neighbor 55 years his junior to death over long-time beef: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 76-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/20\/us-news\/bronx-man-fatally-shot-steps-from-his-own-home-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx man shot<\/a> his 21-year-old neighbor to death after a feud that lasted for years, police and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police officers nabbed 76-year-old Gilbert Smalls on Friday, less than a day after he allegedly killed 21-year-old Justin Chatfield at their Morris Heights apartment building, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38986130\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2220-hours-police-responded-assault-124937440.jpg\" alt=\"A white NYPD police vehicle with its red and blue lights illuminated is parked in front of a brick apartment building at night.\" class=\"wp-image-38986130\"  \/>Gilbert Smalls, 76, shot and killed his 21-year-old Bronx neighbor, Justin Chatfield, after an ongoing feud that lasted around 5 years, according to police. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place around 10:20 p.m. Thursday when <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/29\/us-news\/man-stabbed-to-death-steps-from-mobile-nyc-pot-dispensary-as-streets-stained-red-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cops responded to a 911 call<\/a> at 30 Richman Plaza and discovered Chatfield with a gunshot wound to the torso, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The duo had lived in the same apartment building \u2013 and had been involved in some sort of dispute for the past five years, according to cops and sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That conflict between the two reached its climax on Thursday night, when Chatfield knocked on Smalls\u2019 door, only to be blown away when Smalls opened it, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed Chatfield to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he later died, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.68144499;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38986129\" width=\"992\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/911-call-30-richman-plaza-124961262.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead night view of emergency vehicles with flashing lights outside an apartment building.\" class=\"wp-image-38986129\"  \/>The shooting took place at approximately 10:20 p.m. at 30 Richman Plaza. Citizen<\/p>\n<p>Both men had a history of run-ins with the law, according to law enforcement sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The elder Smalls had at least two priors \u2013 though his last arrest was over 25 years ago for assault \u2013 and he had managed to stay clean until Thursday night\u2019s shooting, law enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The junior Chatfield also had at least three recent priors, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/01\/us-news\/big-apple-bank-bandit-caught-after-5-day-march-spree-that-netted-him-this-much-money\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wanted in connection to robberies<\/a> at the time of his death, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 76-year-old Bronx man shot his 21-year-old neighbor to death after a feud that lasted for years, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,1015,57,9,24,63,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-184845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-shootings","15":"tag-the-bronx","16":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","17":"tag-the-bronx-news","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184845","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=184845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}