{"id":318309,"date":"2026-08-11T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318309\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T02:00:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-family-mourns-16-year-old-boy-fatally-shot-in-the-head-in-morrisania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318309\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Family Mourns 16 Year Old Boy Fatally Shot In The Head In Morrisania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Bronx family is in mourning after police said a teenager was fatally shot in the head in Morrisania.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The shooting happened shortly after 5 a.m. on Monday on Prospect Avenue between Freeman and E 169th streets.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police said officers found 16-year-old John Nunez with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead on scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cHe was there for me, and it\u2019s really heartbreaking that I won\u2019t have that anymore,\u201d said Sol Nunez, the victim&#8217;s older sister.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sol said her brother was visiting a friend\u2019s house. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cAccording to the police, everything was an accident,\u201d said Sol. \u201c[The victim] was at his best friend\u2019s house, so I don\u2019t think anything was intentional towards him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An NYPD spokesperson could not confirm to News 12 that the shooting was accidental.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe don\u2019t know who owns the gun yet,\u201d said Sol. \u201cI sure know it\u2019s not [my brother].\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sol said Nunez was about to be a high school senior who loved baseball, video games and his family. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cHe would come in the house, it was just like the joy came back,\u201d said Sol.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police sources told News 12 that they\u2019re searching for a man wearing a white shirt and beige shorts in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx family is in mourning after police said a teenager was fatally shot in the head in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-318309","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\/318309","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=318309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}