{"id":303007,"date":"2026-07-22T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303007\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:09:47","slug":"police-id-man-sought-in-fatal-shooting-in-bronx-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303007\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ID man sought in fatal shooting in Bronx restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORDHAM, the Bronx (PIX11) \u2014 Police are searching for a suspect after a 29-year-old man was fatally shot in the head<\/a> in the basement of a Bronx restaurant, cops said.<\/p>\n

NYPD detectives have identified Luis Aguero, 24, as one of the men wanted in connection with the death of Yeimy Reyes.<\/p>\n

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Police are searching for Luis Aguero, 24, in connection with a fatal shooting in the Bronx on July 16, 2026. (Credit: NYPD)<\/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. on July 16, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n

Reyes was shot in the restaurant’s basement during an argument with two men, police said. But when officers arrived at the scene, they found Reyes with a gunshot wound to the head outside the restaurant, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Video<\/a>\u00a0from the scene showed cops performing CPR on the victim on the sidewalk. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/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

Police said two suspects dressed in black clothing fled the scene and were last seen heading south on Jerome Avenue.<\/p>\n

The other suspect has not been identified.<\/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\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\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 Police are searching for a suspect after a 29-year-old man was fatally shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,114849,9,24,63,103,114851,129,131,130,114850],"class_list":["post-303007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-luis-aguero","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-shooting-in-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-yeimy-reyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303007","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=303007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303007\/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=303007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}