{"id":317708,"date":"2026-08-10T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317708\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:10:08","slug":"teen-boy-shot-dead-in-bronx-house-while-he-and-pal-play-around-with-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317708\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen boy shot dead in Bronx house while he and pal play around with gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old boy was shot dead in a home in the Bronx early Monday \u2014 apparently as he and a friend were playing around with a gun, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was shot in the head inside a house on Prospect Ave. near E.169th St. about 5:10 a.m., cops said. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said it wasn\u2019t immediately clear if the teen shot himself by accident or if his friend accidentally pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate arrests. The victim\u2019s name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy was shot dead in a home in the Bronx early Monday \u2014 apparently as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-317708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","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\/317708","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=317708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}