A 12-year-old boy was killed and two men were injured in a shooting Saturday afternoon in the Mount Eden section of the Bronx, according to police.<\/p>\n
The gunfire erupted just before 5 p.m. near the corner of Elliot Place and Walton Avenue.<\/p>\n
Police say the 12-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital and later died.<\/p>\n
The two other victims, ages 25 and 34, were also struck by gunfire but are expected to survive. Police said a 25-year-old man was shot in the buttocks, while the 34-year-old man was shot in the foot.<\/p>\n
Authorities had not released a description of the shooter nor disclosed the relationship, if any, between the child and the two adult victims\u00a0as of Saturday night.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear what led to the shooting.<\/p>\n
Neighbor Dave Peralta said he was inside his apartment after he had returned home from work when he heard the gunfire.<\/p>\n
“I just got out of work, headed home, went inside, settled down for the day, and suddenly heard two shots go off,” Peralta said. “I thought it was fireworks, so I didn’t think much of it, but then looked outside and saw people run in the opposite direction.”<\/p>\n
A large police presence remained at the scene Saturday night, with roads around Elliot Place and Walton Avenue closed as detectives continued to investigate.<\/p>\n
No arrests had been made as of Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old boy was killed and two men were injured in a shooting Saturday afternoon in the Mount…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-306613","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\/306613","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=306613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}