{"id":251584,"date":"2026-06-02T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251584\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:05:07","slug":"boy-14-wounded-in-bronx-shooting-55-year-old-gunman-identified-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251584\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 14, wounded in Bronx shooting, 55-year-old gunman identified: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy was wounded in a Bronx shooting following an argument with a gunman more than 40 years his senior, cops said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Roderick Allen, 55, is being sought for opening fire on the teen at Cruger and Burke Aves. in Williamsbridge around 3:50 p.m. on Friday, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, who had no prior relationship to the victim, walked up to him and picked a fight, only to end the argument he started by drawing a weapon and firing on the boy, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>A bullet struck the teen in his left leg and grazed his right leg, said police.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the boy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/jacobi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacobi Medical Center<\/a>, where he is expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Allen fled south on Cruger Ave. He was last seen wearing black shorts, a white tank top, black sneakers and black hat.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has no criminal record in New York City, according to an NYPD spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Police released a photo and surveillance footage of Allen and are requesting the public\u2019s help in tracking him down.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy was wounded in a Bronx shooting following an argument with a gunman more than 40&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,98222,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-251584","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-subway-shooting-bronx","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\/251584","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=251584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}