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<\/a>POLICE CORDON OFF the crime scene at the intersection of West 183rd street and University Place on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, after a double shooting which left two people, including a 79-year-old woman hospitalized.\u00a0Image courtesy of the Citizens\u2019 App<\/p>\n
A 79-year-old woman who was shot on the street in broad daylight in the University Heights section of the Bronx on Wednesday afternoon, June 17, had tried to gather up her scattered groceries, even as emergency personnel were trying to get her into an ambulance and transport her to a local hospital, one witness to the aftermath of the incident said. Another younger man was also shot during the same incident.<\/p>\n
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The NYPD said that at 1.23 p.m. on Wednesday, officers responded to a 911 call \u201cat the intersection of West 183rd street and University Place\u201d [Avenue]. A police spokesperson said, \u201cA 79-year-old female sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen and a 26-year-old male sustained a gunshot wound to the left leg.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cBoth were transported to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition. No arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A trail of several red stains were seen on the sidewalk in the area where the shootings took place but it was unclear if they were dried bloodstains or paint or a potentially a mixture of both. [Nothing was painted red nearby.] The crime scene had already been taken down at that point.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Norwood News spoke to some residents at the location on Wednesday. Speaking in Spanish, one very gently spoken young male resident who said he was over the age of 18, who declined to be identified, and who was with his younger brother, told Norwood News, \u201cI was at home [inside his building located at 2253 University Avenue] when I heard three shots.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cAs it was close, I heard a lady crying and I was worried. I went out to check it out and there was a woman there, shot.\u201d Asked if he had called 911, he said, \u201cWhen I exited, the police were already there, tending to the lady.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Asked if he could see where the woman was injured, he said, \u201cI saw that she was injured down in the stomach [area].\u201d I saw a lot of blood. Asked if she was alone, apart from the police, he said yes. Asked if he had seen the other male victim, he said he had not.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Norwood News asked if he had gotten a shock and had been frightened to go out, the young man said, \u201cYes, because it was so close.\u201d Asked if there were other people around at the time of the shooting, he said people gathered afterwards. Norwood News also asked if there were problems in the area, generally. The young man said, \u201cIn the afternoon, it\u2019s calm. Nothing much happens. Today, yes, it surprised me.\u201d<\/p>\n We asked if he had any idea what had prompted \/ caused the shooting. The young man said, \u201cI think they wanted to get someone else and maybe the person [woman] was around there.\u201d Asked if he knew either of the victims, he said he did not.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Another resident, Julio Diaz, said he saw the woman who had been shot very briefly. \u201cAn elderly woman, her walker was on the floor and she had a rag or something over her eye,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Diaz continued, \u201cThe police were tending to her and waiting for the ambulance to come.\u201d Asked if there was a lot of blood, he said, \u201cI didn\u2019t see any of that, but thank God, she was still coherent. I mean she wasn\u2019t incapacitated or anything. She was aware of what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if he had seen the woman\u2019s injuries, Diaz said he had not. He said he thought there was something wrong with her head as she was holding the cloth up to it. \u201cMight have been that she got grazed. I don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. Asked if he had seen the male victim at all, Diaz said he had not as he was focused on the woman.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n One of the residents mentioned later that they thought they heard the woman mention to a police officer that she was coming from Manhattan when she got shot.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Another older male resident, Edwin Aguila, estimated to be between 30 and 40 years of age, said he also heard the shooting but hadn\u2019t seen it. \u201cI heard the shots in my house,\u201d he said adding that he then started to see alerts on his phone. \u201cYou can see that most people are more and more afraid to walk around because any bullet doesn\u2019t have a name.\u201d<\/p>\n Aguila continued, \u201cIt\u2019s a little bit kinda scary when you\u2019re walking around and people are shooting around,\u201d he said. \u201cI heard the shots in my house.\u201d He added that there were about five or six shots. \u201cI got woken up by a neighbor and he said, \u2018Did you hear that?\u2019 and I said, \u2018Yeah, I heard it because it woke me up from my sleep.’\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Aguila said he checked his phone, and added, \u201cI saw that the lady who got shot in her stomach, that\u2019s my mother\u2019s friend. My mother started worrying and kinda got a little emotional. Started crying\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As he said the words, Aguila\u2019s own voice cracked a little.\u201d Switching to Spanish, he said he then said to his mother, \u201cLook, your friend took a bullet [inaudible].\u201d Switching back to English, Aguila said his mom said, \u201cOh no but\u2026\u201d Aguila added, \u201cShe wanted to come outside and I told her, \u2018No. Stay inside.\u2019 I will let you know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n Aguila said he recognized the woman\u2019s bag from the Citizens\u2019 App images. \u201cHer bag, the bag that she had, she walks with it for her food, my mother\u2019s friend. I mean, my mother, she got a little bit shook. She wanted to go outside. I had to hold her in the house and say, \u2018No, don\u2019t go outside.\u2019 Because you never know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n We informed Aguila that the police said the woman was stable. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy because I was going to leave out of my house to come to the store!\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then I heard the shots. I was, like, \u2018Oh wow!\u2019 A lot of people at night time, they be like popping fireworks and you don\u2019t know if it\u2019s shots.\u201d<\/p>\n We asked Aguila if he knew his mom\u2019s friend, the female victim, and Aguila said, \u201cShe\u2019s always by herself. She always leaves the house to go by herself. It was kind of not nice that she wanted to bring her stuff with her.\u201d Asked if he meant she was trying to gather her shopping \/ groceries even after being shot and as emergency services were taking her to the hospital, Aguila said yes. \u201cI don\u2019t know where they took her stuff,\u201d he said, referring to her groceries.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Aguila said the woman had actually asked his mother the day before if she wanted to accompany her when she went shopping to the supermarket on Wednesday. \u201cAnd that was what happened,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes, God warns you but this neighborhood, sometimes, is quiet. We\u2019ve been living on Loring for almost 40 years. We know everyone in this area. There\u2019s always shootings. There\u2019s always a shot.. someone always get killed or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if he feels safe in the neighborhood, Alguila said, \u201cI feel scared for everybody. I know everybody. My ma knows everybody. Everybody knows everybody but sometimes, for something like that to be a shooting\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Aguila asked if anyone had been caught. We informed him that the police said the investigation was ongoing but no arrests yet. He mentioned that there was a school around the corner. \u201cImagine if it would have been school kids walking around. If they\u2019re doing that shoot out by daylight, what happens if there are kids walking out and getting shot? That\u2019s why they should be having police officers standing at every corner\u2026 more police just to be alert and watching.\u201d<\/p>\n Two police officers were seen standing on a block of West Fordham Road between Aqueduct Avenue and University Avenue about a 5-minute walk from the crime scene later that evening.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As reported<\/a>, 23-year-old Reyna Caceres was fatally shot also in the University Heights section in the early hours of May 28.<\/p>\n As reported<\/a>, after citywide crime statistics for May were recently released<\/a>, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch noted that overall citywide major crime is down, and the new Patrol Borough Bronx South command similarly saw a decrease in year-to-date index crimes in May. Conversely, much of the Northwest Bronx precincts (52nd, 50th and 46th) saw a rise in year-to-date crime in several major categories. Norwood News asked the commissioner if she had any comments in that regard during a press conference on Monday, June 15.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe crime declines that we have seen generally, in the borough of the Bronx, particularly in the South Bronx, have really been historic across the borough so far this year,\u201d Tisch said in part. \u201cOf course, there are always going to be problem areas, problem precincts, and that\u2019s why we use the CompStat process (NYPD crime data collection tool), and we do deployments of officers to places where we\u2019re seeing crime go up.\u201d<\/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 Crime Stoppers website at\u00a0https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n All calls are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By S\u00cdLE MOLONEY \u00a0 POLICE CORDON OFF the crime scene at the intersection of West 183rd street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-270461","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\/270461","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=270461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>AN AMBULANCE IS seen on West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, the day two people were shot at the location and hospitalized in stable condition.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>PAINT OR POSSIBLY dry blood is seen on the sidewalk at West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, on the day that two people were shot at the location and hospitalized, both in stable condition.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>PAINT OR POSSIBLY dry blood is seen on the sidewalk at West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, on the day that two people were shot at the location and hospitalized, both in stable condition.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>PAINT OR POSSIBLY dry blood is seen on the sidewalk at West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, on the day that two people were shot at the location and hospitalized, both in stable condition.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>PAINT OR POSSIBLY dry blood is seen on the sidewalk at West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, on the day that two people were shot at the location and hospitalized, both in stable condition.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>PAINT OR POSSIBLY dry blood is seen on the sidewalk at West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, on the day that two people were shot at the location and hospitalized, both in stable condition.\u00a0
Photo<\/p>\n<\/a>PAINT OR POSSIBLY dry blood is seen on the sidewalk at West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, on the day that two people were shot at the location and hospitalized, both in stable condition.\u00a0
Photo<\/p>\n<\/a>TWO POLICE OFFICERS are seen on West Fordham Road between Aqueduct Avenue and University Avenue in the Fordham Manor section of The Bronx on Wednesday evening, June 17, 2026, not too far from where a double shooting took place earlier that day at West 183rd Street and University Avenue.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>A POLICE VEHICLE is seen at West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, on the day that two people were shot at the location and hospitalized, both in stable condition.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>THE REMAINS OF police crime scene tape is seen at West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, on the day that two people were shot at the location and hospitalized, both in stable condition. A bystander said the injured woman had been laying on the ground just in front of this gate \/ wall in at 2253 University Avenue.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<\/a>PAINT OR POSSIBLY dry blood is seen on the sidewalk at West 183rd Street and University Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, on the day that two people were shot at the location and hospitalized, both in stable condition.\u00a0
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n