{"id":233138,"date":"2026-05-15T21:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233138\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:06:38","slug":"teen-arrested-in-bronx-shooting-that-left-5-year-old-girl-wounded-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233138\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested in Bronx shooting that left 5-year-old girl wounded, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/girl-shot-longwood-bronx-grandfather-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> wounded a 5-year-old girl<\/a> in the Bronx, the New York Police Department said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said the teenager taken into custody at around 10 a.m. and charged with attempted murder after the little girl was grazed by a bullet Wednesday in the Longwood section.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The boy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/stray-bullet-shooting-longwood-bronx-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of three suspects<\/a> police were looking for after the shooting on busy Southern Boulevard during rush hour. He was charged with attempted murder, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon, among other alleged crimes, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two suspects remain at large, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video of the incident showed people walking along the sidewalk, suddenly looking back and scrambling to find cover. What appears to be a group of teens then sprints by, including at least one displaying a gun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources told CBS New New York two groups were firing at each other and the 5-year-old was not the intended target.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A bullet grazed the little girl in the ear. She was hospitalized in stable condition, her grandfather on Thursday told CBS News New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re saying she&#8217;s going to be OK, you know,&#8221; Steven Willis said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/girl-shot-longwood-bronx-grandfather-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in the phone interview<\/a>. &#8220;She&#8217;s a little girl. She&#8217;ll be traumatized by it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police did not release the name of the suspect in custody. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers hotline at\u00a01-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish,\u00a01-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via their website<\/a>\u00a0or via DM on Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls are kept confidential.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting that wounded a 5-year-old girl in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-233138","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\/233138","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=233138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}