{"id":250425,"date":"2026-06-01T03:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T03:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:36:28","slug":"news-12-bronx-woman-shot-in-the-leg-in-melrose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/250425\/","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 data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded to 654 Prospect Ave. just after 11 p.m. to a call of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">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 data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 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 data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Exclusive surveillance video shared with News 12 shows six people frantically running down Prospect Avenue moments after gunfire broke out. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident comes after a deadly shooting of Reyna Caceres, 23, in University Heights outside of a park on May 28. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On Friday morning, police put tape in front of several storefronts as officers searched for the gunman. They say he was last seen wearing all black. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors told News 12 they are not surprised by the gun violence in the area. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of crazy&#8230;I drop my daughter off at school over here. I come through here every morning, and every morning there&#8217;s something different. I&#8217;m not shocked,&#8221; Jairo Rochez said. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">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":250426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-250425","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\/250425","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=250425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}