{"id":318618,"date":"2026-08-11T13:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318618\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:50:22","slug":"16-year-old-bronx-teen-who-was-fatally-shot-may-have-been-handling-a-gun-that-mistakenly-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318618\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old Bronx teen who was fatally shot may have been handling a gun that mistakenly fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"euc1c\">A teenager who was fatally shot in the Bronx early Monday morning may have been handling a gun that mistakenly fired, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"emrmb\">Officials said they were investigating that possibility after first responders found 16-year-old John Nunez around 5:15 a.m. with a gunshot wound to his head inside a three-story home on Prospect Avenue and Freeman Street in Crotona Park.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9c6gg\">EMS workers pronounced him dead at the scene, and police said they were looking for a male wearing a white shirt who fled the home in an unknown direction. Police said it was unclear whether the suspect lived there. Nunez lived about half a mile away, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"61tf0\">Police did not make any immediate arrests.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7bcmu\">Nunez is at least the 12th teen to die of gun violence in New York City so far this year, according to police reports compiled by Gothamist. A total of 25 teenagers were shot and killed across the five boroughs last year, according to Gothamist\u2019s records.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ai14a\">Though gun violence continues to trend down by a few percentage points this year, the number of teenagers suspected in shootings <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/more-teens-suspected-in-nyc-shootings-even-as-gun-violence-drops-city-data-shows\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">has been on the rise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager who was fatally shot in the Bronx early Monday morning may have been handling a gun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-318618","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\/318618","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=318618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}