{"id":281141,"date":"2026-06-29T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281141\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:07:05","slug":"bronx-man-accused-of-firing-gun-into-air-in-waterbury-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281141\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Man Accused Of Firing Gun Into Air In Waterbury, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Pichardo, 51, of the Bronx, New York, was arrested following the incident just before 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 28, in the area of\u00a0Chase Avenue and Cooke Street in Waterbury, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Waterbury police were called to that area to reports of gunshots, but when they arrived, no one was there. Officers found three shell casings on the ground. There was no property damage, and no one was hurt, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said they connected Pichardo to the shots, but did not detail why he is alleged to have pulled the trigger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pichardo was charged with:<\/p>\n<p>Breach of peace in the second degreeUnlawful discharge of a firearmPossession of a stolen firearmReckless endangerment in the first degreeIllegal sale and transfer of a firearmCarrying a pistol or revolver without a permit<\/p>\n<p>Police said Pichardo was being held on a $500,000 bond<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Waterbury<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Pichardo, 51, of the Bronx, New York, was arrested following the incident just before 2 p.m. on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-281141","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\/281141","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=281141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}