{"id":297880,"date":"2026-07-16T18:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297880\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:16:13","slug":"man-fatally-shot-in-the-head-in-bronx-restaurant-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297880\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally shot in the head in Bronx restaurant: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORDHAM, the Bronx (PIX11) \u2014 A 29-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in the basement of a Bronx restaurant early Thursday morning, police said.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to the shooting at the M Lounge Restaurant on Jerome Avenue near West 184th Street in Fordham at around 4:30 a.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n

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The victim was shot in the restaurant’s basement, but when officers found the man with a gunshot wound to the head outside the restaurant, police said. Video<\/a> from the scene showed cops performing CPR on the victim on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

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A 29-year-old man was shot and killed in a Bronx restaurant on Jerome Avenue on July 16, 2026. (Credit: Citizen)<\/p>\n

Medics pronounced him dead at the scene. The victim has not been identified.<\/p>\n

Police are searching for two suspects dressed in black clothing who were last seen heading south on Jerome Avenue, cops said.<\/p>\n

It was unclear what prompted the shooting.<\/p>\n

Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting\u00a0crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n

Mira Wassef is an award-winning reporter who has covered news and sports in the NYC area for more than a decade. She joined the PIX11 News digital team in 2022. See more of her work here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORDHAM, the Bronx (PIX11) \u2014 A 29-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in the basement of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5371,67222,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-297880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-gunshot-wound-to-the-head","tag-jerome-avenue","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\/297880","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=297880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}