{"id":239242,"date":"2026-05-21T12:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239242\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:57:38","slug":"nyc-ambulance-hit-by-gunfire-as-emts-help-teen-shot-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239242\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC ambulance hit by gunfire as EMTs help teen shot in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two EMTs were nearly killed helping a teenager who had been shot in the Bronx when their ambulance was struck by gunfire, according to police and fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>Police and FDNY EMS responded to a reported shooting at the Butler Houses on Webster Avenue in Claremont and found an 18-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen around 12:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>While at the scene, an FDNY ambulance was shot at and suffered damages to rear and front windshields, according to officials and images from the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39445001\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/police-scene-fdny-ambulance-struck-128375972.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer inspects an ambulance with a bullet hole in its windshield.\" class=\"wp-image-39445001\"  \/>Police at the scene where an FDNY ambulance was struck by a bullet, narrowly avoiding an EMT sitting in the passenger seat on Webster Avenue near E170th Street in the Bronx, NY around 12:15 a.m. on May 21, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39445096\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/police-scene-fdny-ambulance-struck-128376330.jpg\" alt=\"Police at the scene where an FDNY ambulance was struck by a bullet that traveled through the entire ambulance.\" class=\"wp-image-39445096\"  \/>Police investigate the shooting, as a bullet hole is seen in the back of the ambulance. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Two FDNY EMTs were inside the parked ambulance at the time but were miraculously not struck, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/ambulance-responding-help-shooting-victim-claremont-bronx-struck-gunfire\/19142657\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABC 7 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both were taken to a local hospital with non-serious injuries for evaluation, police and fire officials said. <\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old shooting victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two EMTs were nearly killed helping a teenager who had been shot in the Bronx when their ambulance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[9173,128,38679,57,9,24,63,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-239242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-ambulances","tag-bronx","tag-emts","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239242","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=239242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}