{"id":239411,"date":"2026-05-21T16:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239411\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:09:03","slug":"bronx-shooting-leaves-teenager-wounded-ems-workers-lucky-to-be-alive-after-stray-shot-strikes-their-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239411\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx shooting leaves teenager wounded, EMS workers lucky to be alive after stray shot strikes their ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779379743_484_Screenshot-2026-03-16-at-8.47.59-AM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"police at crime scene in Bronx\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Bronx shooting leaves teenager wounded, EMS workers lucky to be alive after stray shot strikes their ambulance 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 Police at a crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating a shooting in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/bronx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bronx<\/a> early on Thursday morning that left a man seriously wounded \u2014 and narrowly missed injuring paramedics sitting in a nearby ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the incident unfolded at around 12:18 a.m. on May 21 outside of an apartment building at 1245 Webster Ave. in Morrisania.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the 4<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd44pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">4th Precinct,<\/a> in responding to a call for assistance at the location, found the victim, an 18-year-old man shot in the abdomen.\n<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances leading up to the shooting remain unknown and under investigation. While investigating the crime scene, police learned that a stray bullet had struck an ambulance parked across the street, at 1368 Webster Ave., hitting the rear window before exiting through the front.<\/p>\n<p>Two EMS members were in the ambulance at the time, responding to an unrelated incident. They were not injured by the stray shot, police reported.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old victim, meanwhile, was rushed to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition and expected to survive.\n<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this shooting can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 Police at a crime scene. Photo by Dean Moses Police are investigating a shooting in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[38980,128,2443,303,787,9,24,63,103,1096,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-239411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-44th-precinct","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-shooting","tag-crime","tag-gun-violence","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-shooting","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\/239411","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=239411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}