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<\/a>A RED POUCH with a zipper is seen at the cordoned off crime scene in front of Aqueduct Lands Playground at 2158 Aqueduct Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx in the early hours of May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was shot at the location shortly after midnight and later died.\u00a0\u00a0Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n
An NYPD spokesperson said the shooting occurred around midnight on Wednesday, May 27, at 2158 Aqueduct Avenue, the location of Aqueduct Lands Playground, which was cordoned off by police along with both an interior, corner section of the playground adjacent to another cordoned off section of Aqueduct Avenue, outside the playground. Police later said the call was received at 00.10 a.m. on Thursday, May 28.<\/p>\n
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The spokesperson continued, \u201cWe have a female, 23, shot in the left eye, taken to St. Barnabas Hospital by EMS, where she was pronounced deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n She added that there were no arrests. \u201cI don\u2019t have a description for you [for a suspect] at this time,\u201d she said. \u201cEverything is still under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The deceased was later identified as Reyna Caceres from the University Heights section of The Bronx.<\/p>\n An apparent large music speaker which appeared to be connected to a cable, what looked like a black sweatshirt \/ hoodie \/ jacket, a red pouch with a zipper, a Target shopping bag, a hookah pipe, a plastic cup, and some red cone markers, presumably marking the location of shell casings, were seen on the sidewalk behind a cordoned off crime scene section of Aqueduct Avenue outside Aqueduct Lands Playground<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The gate to the playground had also been cordoned off by police along with an interior section of the playground located adjacent to the exterior cordoned off crime scene outside the playground on Aqueduct Avenue.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The red cone markers were seen both inside and outside the playground.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A helicopter could be heard seemingly circling over the north central Bronx in the early hours of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unknown if it was a police helicopter and whether or not it related to a potential search for suspects following the shooting.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As we were making our way to the crime scene in the early hours of May 28, a man standing outside a residential building on nearby Creston Avenue, between 182nd Street and 181st Street, smoking and speaking in Spanish, asked Norwood News if we had seen a \u201clady\u201d running down the block from 181st Street towards 182nd Street. We said we had not.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n On arrival at the crime scene, Norwood News spoke to a group of people, some male and some female, some of whom were seated on benches close to the playground area and some of whom were drinking. We asked them if they knew what happened.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Two men said they heard multiple shots earlier and then declined to comment further. We also spoke to some local workers and residents in and around the area but they had no knowledge of what had happened.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n We will share any further updates we receive.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Major crime statistics for the 46th Precinct, where the shooting took place, are attached.<\/p>\n 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 CrimeStoppers website at\u00a0https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n All calls are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By S\u00cdLE MOLONEY THE CRIME SCENE AT 2158 Aqueduct Avenue in the University Heights section of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-246157","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\/246157","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=246157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>A RED PLASTIC cup is likely used to mark the location of a shell casing at the cordoned off crime scene in front of Aqueduct Lands Playground at 2158 Aqueduct Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx in the early hours of May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was shot at the location shortly after midnight and later died.\u00a0\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>A RED CONE marks the area were a shell casing was likely found in a cordoned off area in front of Aqueduct Lands Playground at 2158 Aqueduct Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx in the early hours of May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was shot at the location shortly after midnight and later died.\u00a0\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>A SPEAKER, A cable, a plastic cup and a seemingly potato chip bag and a few other things are seen at the cordoned off crime scene in front of Aqueduct Lands Playground at 2158 Aqueduct Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx in the early hours of May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was shot at the location shortly after midnight and later died.
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>A TARGET SHOPPING bag and a hookah pipe are seen near some crumpled up crime scene tape behind a cordoned off area in front of Aqueduct Lands Playground at 2158 Aqueduct Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx in the early hours of May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was shot at the location shortly after midnight and later died.\u00a0\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>MAJOR CRIME STATISTICS for the 46th Precinct for the 28-day period ending May 17, 2026, compared to last year (left), and year-to-date major crime statistics for the 46th Precinct as of May 17, 2026, compared to last year (right). This precinct covers some or all of Fordham, University Heights, Morris Heights and Mt. Hope.
Source: NYPD \/ CompStat<\/p>\n<\/a>THE RED MARKER indicates the location of 2153 Aqueduct Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx, where a woman was murdered in the early hours of Thursday, May 28, 2026.\u00a0
Map courtesy of Google Maps<\/p>\n<\/a>A POLICE CRIME scene unit arrives at Aqueduct Lands Playground in the University Heights section of The Bronx in the early hours of Thursday, May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was fatally shot in the eye at the location shortly after midnight.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>THE GATE TO Aqueduct Lands Playground in the University Heights section of The Bronx is cordoned off in the early hours of Thursday, May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was fatally shot in the eye at the location shortly after midnight.
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>POLICE ARE SEEN at 2153 Aqueduct Avenue at a cordoned off crime scene next to Aqueduct Lands Playground in the University Heights section of The Bronx in the early hours of Thursday, May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was fatally shot in the eye at the location shortly after midnight
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>POLICE FROM AN NYPD crime scene unit speak to other officers at a cordoned off area outside Aqueduct Lands Playground in the University Heights section of The Bronx in the early hours of Thursday, May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was fatally shot in the eye at the location shortly after midnight.
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>TWO RED CONES presumably marking some shell casings are seen inside a cordoned off corner section of Aqueduct Lands Playground in the University Heights section of The Bronx in the early hours of Thursday, May 28, 2026, after a 23-year-old woman was fatally shot in the eye at the location shortly after midnight.
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n