{"id":317773,"date":"2026-08-10T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317773\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:54:07","slug":"teen-shot-dead-while-playing-with-gun-in-the-bronx-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317773\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen shot dead while playing with gun in the Bronx: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/unnamed-18.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"crime scene tape after cop shot at catalytic converter thieves in Queens\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Teen shot dead while playing with gun in the Bronx: sources 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Crime Scene tape.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A teenager was shot to death inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/bronx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bronx<\/a> home early Monday morning, and police are investigating whether his death may have been a case of deadly gunplay.<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd42pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">42nd Precinct<\/a> rushed to 1346 Prospect Ave. in Morrisania at around 5:11 a.m. on Aug. 10 after a report that a person had been shot. <\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, cops discovered a 17-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head.\u00a0EMS responded and pronounced the boy dead at the scene. His identity is pending proper family notification.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the investigation report that the teen and a friend had been playing around with a gun when it suddenly went off, causing the young man\u2019s demise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another teen is being questioned by police, but no arrests have been made at the time of publication. The investigation remains ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime Scene tape. Photo by Dean Moses &#13; &#13; A teenager was shot to death inside a Bronx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,103,104,1096,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-317773","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-nypd","tag-police","tag-shooting","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\/317773","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=317773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}