{"id":313641,"date":"2026-08-04T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313641\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:42:07","slug":"former-mount-vernon-official-faces-attempted-murder-charges-in-connection-with-bronx-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313641\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mount Vernon official faces attempted murder charges in connection with Bronx shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Mount Vernon police official faces attempted murder charges following a shooting in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lackard, 49, served as deputy commissioner of wellness in the community affairs division of the Mount Vernon Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the NYPD, police responded to a shots fired call outside a courthouse on East 162nd Street and Grant Avenue in the Bronx just before midnight on June 29. Police said a gunman opened fire at a crowd of people, and took off in a vehicle that headed northbound on East 163rd Street. Fortunately, no one was hit by the gunfire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Early Tuesday morning, police arrested Lackard and her 20-year-old son, Chase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both were charged with attempted murder, three counts of attempted assault, six counts of weapons possession, as well as one count each of conspiracy and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Vernon Police said Tuesday Lackard has been terminated from the department, effective immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mount Vernon Police said the charges &#8220;are unrelated to her duties with the Mount Vernon Police Department and do not stem from any conduct associated with the Department or the performance of her official responsibilities,&#8221; adding that it &#8220;remains fully committed to its nationally recognized Wellness Unit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Mount Vernon police official faces attempted murder charges following a shooting in the Bronx. Jennifer Lackard,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,6336,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-313641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mount-vernon","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\/313641","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=313641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}