{"id":200691,"date":"2026-04-17T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200691\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:43:09","slug":"senior-man-fatally-shot-near-his-home-in-the-bronx-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200691\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior man fatally shot near his home in the Bronx: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1889004791.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Red and blue flashing police lights at a crime scene.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Senior man fatally shot near his home in the Bronx: NYPD 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD is investigating a shooting that left a man dead in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Photo via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD is investigating the death of a man who was found shot near his home in the Bronx on Thursday night.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police, at 10:25 p.m. on April 16, cops responded to a 911 call regarding an assault at 205 Alexander Ave. Upon their arrival, officers from the 40th Precinct found the victim, 78-year-old Edgar Spence, with a gunshot wound to his torso.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed Spence, who lived less than a block away from the crime scene, to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Lincoln where he was pronounced dead.\n<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made at this time. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is investigating a shooting that left a man dead in the Bronx. Photo via Getty Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[43724,79640,27068,79641,1027,75,84,83,9,24,63,103,1096],"class_list":{"0":"post-200691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-40th-precinct","9":"tag-alexander-avenue","10":"tag-dcpi","11":"tag-edgar-spence","12":"tag-homicide","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200691","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=200691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}