{"id":200771,"date":"2026-04-17T15:07:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200771\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:07:37","slug":"news-12-bronx-78-year-old-man-fatally-shot-feet-away-from-his-mott-haven-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/200771\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 78 Year Old Man Fatally Shot Feet Away From His Mott Haven Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 78-year-old man was fatally shot late Thursday night in Mott Haven, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities identified the victim as Edgar Spence. He was found with a gunshot wound to the torso just steps from his home on Alexander Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they received a 911 call reporting an assault at 205 Alexander Ave. shortly before 10:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they found Spence with a gun shot to his torso.<\/p>\n<p>First responders performed life-saving measures at the scene, including chest compressions, as seen in citizen video that also showed a large police presence. Spence was transported for treatment but could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources said Spence was not the intended target and appeared to be an innocent bystander.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 78-year-old man was fatally shot late Thursday night in Mott Haven, police said. Authorities identified the victim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-200771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200771","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=200771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}