{"id":284435,"date":"2026-07-02T01:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:49:16","slug":"yonkers-cop-shoots-at-wild-bmw-carjacker-after-head-on-collision-in-bronx-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284435\/","title":{"rendered":"Yonkers cop shoots at wild BMW carjacker after head-on collision in Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Yonkers cop opened fire on a carjacking suspect barreling toward him in a stolen black BMW after a harried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaQa6ZzFoem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:police chase and crash;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;police chase and crash&quot;}\" class=\"link \">police chase and crash<\/a> on a Bronx highway Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No one was shot during the 10:15 a.m. incident, Yonkers police said. Cops from multiple jurisdictions, including the NYPD, were searching for the carjacker, who sped off after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No NYPD officers were involved in the initial incident, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Things began in Yonkers when cops began \u201cactively pursuing a suspect vehicle from a carjacking,\u201d a Yonkers Police Department spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yonkers cops followed the fleeing car thief into the Bronx, where the suspect began traveling up an exit ramp to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/mosholu-parkway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Mosholu Parkway in Van Cortlandt Park.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mosholu Parkway in Van Cortlandt Park.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Mosholu Parkway in Van Cortlandt Park.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The carjacker collided head-on with a marked Yonkers police vehicle exiting down the ramp in pursuit of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When both vehicles came to a stop, an officer jumped out of the patrol car and tried to grab the carjacker \u2014 but he gunned the engine and sped toward the cop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The officer drew his weapon and blasted off several shots at the Bimmer as the car thief drove off, fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The carjacker never struck the cop, who was treated for minor injuries he sustained in the initial collision, the YPD spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOfficers from several jurisdictions are still attempting to locate the suspect,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Yonkers cop opened fire on a carjacking suspect barreling toward him in a stolen black BMW after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,70441,9,24,63,103,1726,129,131,130,3048],"class_list":["post-284435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-carjacker","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-chase","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-yonkers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284435","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=284435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}