{"id":238304,"date":"2026-05-20T18:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238304\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:23:02","slug":"update-williamsbridge-arrest-made-in-fatal-shooting-of-20-year-old-man-on-bronxwood-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238304\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE Williamsbridge: Arrest Made in Fatal Shooting of 20-Year-Old Man on Bronxwood Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBy S\u00cdLE MOLONEY<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwoodnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3014.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-116315 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779301380_66_IMG_3014-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/><\/a>A 20-YEAR-OLD MAN died following a daylight shooting at 3724 Bronxwood Avenue (pictured) by East 217th Street in the Williamsbridge section of The Bronx on Thursday, April 17, 2025.<br \/>Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p>Police said they have made an arrest in the fatal daylight shooting of a 20-year-old man in the Williamsbridge section of The Bronx in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwoodnews.org\/update-williamsbridge-20-year-old-man-fatally-shot-on-bronxwood-avenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, a police spokesperson said that on Thursday, April 17, 2025, at around 1.33 p.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding an assault in progress at 3724 Bronxwood Avenue [a corner deli] by East 217th Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival, officers observed a 20-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the neck and chest,\u201d the spokesperson said, adding that EMS responded and transported the victim to NYC Health and Hospitals\/Jacobi in Morris Park, where he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwoodnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3011.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-116316 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3011-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/><\/a>A 20-YEAR-OLD MAN died following a daylight shooting at 3724 Bronxwood Avenue (pictured) by East 217th Street in the Williamsbridge section of The Bronx on Thursday, April 17, 2025.<br \/>Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p>Police said there were no arrests at the time and the investigation remained ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On May 19 [2026], police said pursuant to an ongoing investigation, Marlon Smith, 22, of Co-Op City in The Bronx was arrested on Monday, May 18, at 8.20 p.m. in the confines of the 47th Precinct, which broadly covers the north and northeast Bronx neighborhoods of Woodlawn, Wakefield, Williamsbridge, Baychester, Edenwald, Olinville, Fishbay, and Woodlawn Cemetery. They said he was charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Bronx DA\u2019s office said Smith was arraigned on various charges in the spring of 2025 in relation to the murder, and his next court date is set for later this month. They said he remains in custody. According to the indictment, he has been charged with murder in the second degree, manslaughter in the first degree, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. He is presumed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As reported at the time, Norwood News spoke to some workers at the deli later on the day of the incident but they said they weren\u2019t working at the time the shooting took place. We also spoke to some other residents but they said they had not been at home when the shooting happened and didn\u2019t know anything about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwoodnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_3013-1-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-116318 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3013-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/a>WHAT MAY POSSIBLY be diluted blood stains are seen on the sidewalk outside 3724 Bronxwood Avenue by East 217th Street in the Williamsbridge section of The Bronx on Thursday night, April 17, 2025. A 20-year-old man was fatally shot at the location earlier that day.<br \/>Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p>Other residents declined to comment. The deceased was identified as Sorai King of Williamsbridge, The Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1744578609995000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1PyO2i-jiGVjs2b-JBTXTo\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n<p>All calls are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; By S\u00cdLE MOLONEY A 20-YEAR-OLD MAN died following a daylight shooting at 3724 Bronxwood Avenue (pictured) by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-238304","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\/238304","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=238304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}