{"id":213289,"date":"2026-04-28T23:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213289\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T23:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:08:18","slug":"news-12-bronx-robbery-turns-violent-in-bedford-park-as-suspects-flee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213289\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Robbery Turns Violent In Bedford Park As Suspects Flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bodega workers are fearing for their safety after a violent armed robbery in Bedford Park that was caught on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 spoke exclusively with a worker who said he has not returned to work since the attack.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police said the robbery happened around 3 a.m. April 22 at a bodega on Villa Avenue. Video shows two suspects wearing black and purple hoodies entering the store with a gun.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources said the suspects confronted two brothers working inside, ages 27 and 22. One suspect pushed the younger brother and grabbed him by the neck, according to police, while the older brother \u2014 who had been stocking drinks in a refrigerator \u2014 was struck in the head with the gun.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI knew not to overreact, I kept my calm\u2026 but it\u2019s something that you shouldn\u2019t have to deal with when you have a family,\u201d the employee told News 12. He asked not to be identified out of fear for his safety.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police said the suspects fled with about $250 in cash. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to NYPD data, robberies in the 52nd Precinct have increased nearly 9% so far this year.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The United Bodegas of America is offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The store\u2019s manager said the employee has not returned to work since the incident, and workers remain on edge while the suspects are still at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodega workers are fearing for their safety after a violent armed robbery in Bedford Park that was caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-213289","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\/213289","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=213289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}