{"id":302603,"date":"2026-07-22T05:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302603\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:04:52","slug":"highbridge-man-sought-for-questioning-in-fatal-bludgeoning-of-norwood-man-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302603\/","title":{"rendered":"Highbridge: Man Sought for Questioning in Fatal Bludgeoning of Norwood Man in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBy S\u00cdLE MOLONEY <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2673-24-Homicide-44-Pct-6-22-23.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-135402 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2673-24-Homicide-44-Pct-6-22-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/a>POLICE ARE ASKING for the public\u2019s help locating this person who they say is wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of a 33-year-old resident of Norwood inside 1165 Shakespeare Avenue in the Highbridge section of The Bronx on June 22, 2023.<br \/>Photo courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking for the public\u2019s help locating the person seen in the attached media who they say is wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of a 33-year-old resident of Norwood in the Highbridge section of The Bronx in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwoodnews.org\/highbridge-nypd-launches-murder-investigation-after-norwood-man-dies-in-apparent-bludgeoning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, police said that on Thursday, June 22, at around 9.03 p.m., officers responded to a 911 call regarding an aided male\/calls for help inside 1165 Shakespeare Avenue in Highbridge.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival, officers observed a 33-year-old male in a semi-conscious state within the fifth-floor hallway, with a sustained lactation under his chin,\u201d an NYPD spokesperson said. \u201cEMS responded to the location and transported the aided male to NYC Health &amp; Hospitals\/Lincoln, where he was pronounced deceased on Sunday, June 25, 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner deemed the manner of death as a homicide, and that the victim had sustained an apparent traumatic head injury. They said there were no arrests, and the investigation remained ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was identified as Jermaine Jones of Webster Avenue in Norwood.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They the person sought was identified as Amir Dickson, 32.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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 CrimeStoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1689205701625000&amp;usg=AOvVaw18kh7ur4jckrFyCDGeR3bi\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>\u00a0or on Twitter @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All calls are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; By S\u00cdLE MOLONEY POLICE ARE ASKING for the public\u2019s help locating this person who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-302603","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\/302603","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=302603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}