{"id":229057,"date":"2026-05-12T21:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229057\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:05:24","slug":"news-12-bronx-13-year-old-in-custody-after-15-year-old-shot-in-the-head-in-eastchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229057\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 13 Year Old In Custody After 15 Year Old Shot In The Head In Eastchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 13-year-old boy is in custody after a 15-year-old boy was shot in the head in Eastchester on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police sources say it appears that\u00a0the\u00a015-year-old shot himself in the head and remains in the hospital right fighting for his life.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The\u00a013-year-old boy is in police custody and has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. It&#8217;s unclear the connection the 13-year-old had with the 15-year-old or why he&#8217;s getting charged.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, the incident happened around 3 p.m. Police say they arrived at 3475 Bivona St., and that&#8217;s where they found the 15-year-old with a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 15-year-old was rushed to the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">As of right now there are more questions than answers, and a lot to piece together here. It&#8217;s unclear how the 15-year-old got the gun, or who it belonged to and why that 13-year-old is getting charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old boy is in custody after a 15-year-old boy was shot in the head in Eastchester on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-229057","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\/229057","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=229057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}