{"id":205678,"date":"2026-04-22T03:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205678\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:22:41","slug":"news-12-bronx-mott-haven-community-mourns-grandfather-killed-by-stray-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205678\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Mott Haven Community Mourns Grandfather Killed By Stray Bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/78-year-old-man-fatally-shot-feet-away-from-his-mott-haven-home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx community is grieving and demanding answers<\/a> after a 78-year-old man was shot and killed while sitting in his wheelchair in Mott Haven.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors gathered at the Mitchel Houses to honor Edger Spence, lighting candles, releasing balloons and sharing memories of a man many called the \u201cgrandpa\u201d of the development.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cPapa, you are forever, forever, forever, forever missed,\u201d said Mimi Singleton, his adopted granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the shooting happened around 10:25 p.m. on April 16. Investigators believe the bullet that killed Spence was not intended for him.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Singleton said Spence was a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/snitch-family-of-78-year-old-killed-in-mott-haven-asks-for-communitys-help-to-find-shooter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guiding figure for many young people in the neighborhood.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWhen he saw that you were in trouble, he was the male figure that we could go to,\u201d she said. \u201cI have no one I can trust and guide me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Singleton, the founder of Peace N Love, said she now hopes to carry on his legacy by mentoring children in the community.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe are all their parents, and it takes a village to bring them up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Family and friends are also calling for accountability, urging NYCHA to release any surveillance images or video that could help identify the shooter.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cNYCHA put cameras in all of these developments\u2014where are the photos of the individual?\u201d one person at the vigil said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Singleton also pleaded with neighbors to step in and help stop the violence.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIf you see something, intervene and do something,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have not announced any arrests and continue searching for the gunman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx community is grieving and demanding answers after a 78-year-old man was shot and killed while sitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205679,"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-205678","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\/205678","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=205678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}