Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man wanted in connection with the shooting of a 16-year-old boy in Williamsbridge earlier this month.<\/p>\n
The NYPD released new images on Friday of a man investigators say is wanted in connection with the May 18 shooting on East Gun Hill Road.<\/p>\n
Police say the suspect has a tattoo on his arm and was last seen wearing a backpack and black pants.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, the teen was struck in the arm. He was taken to Montefiore Einstein Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n
Authorities have released few details about what led up to the shooting, and it remains unclear whether the suspect and victim knew each other.<\/p>\n
Community members in the neighborhood said they were saddened to learn a teenager was involved in the violence.<\/p>\n
“One thing we gotta get better with is with the youth. Because when I hear youth, I think future and the future is supposed to be bright,” said Darryl Aikins, a community member.<\/p>\n
Tyquan Johnson said more resources are needed for young people in the community.<\/p>\n
“I really just feel like our community needs to do better. We need more protection… Think more youth programs, whether it’s music or computers,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n
Another resident, Daquaion Lewis, echoed that sentiment.<\/p>\n
“We gotta do better as a people as a whole,” Lewis said.<\/p>\n
Police are urging anyone who recognizes the man in the released images to contact the NYPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man wanted in connection with the shooting of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-248485","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\/248485","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=248485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}