{"id":247664,"date":"2026-05-29T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247664\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:01:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-woman-shot-in-the-leg-in-melrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247664\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Woman Shot In The Leg In Melrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 21-year-old woman is recovering in the hospital after being shot in the leg in Melrose late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to 654 Prospect Ave. just after 11 p.m. to a call of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the victim and her friends were walking southbound down Prospect Avenue when an unidentified man shot at the group from across the street. <\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old woman suffered a gunshot wound to her left leg and was transported to Lincoln Hospital. She is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, police tape blocked off several storefronts as officers searched for the gunman. They say he was last seen wearing all black. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 21-year-old woman is recovering in the hospital after being shot in the leg in Melrose late Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-247664","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\/247664","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=247664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}