{"id":319146,"date":"2026-08-12T01:26:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319146\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T01:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T01:26:43","slug":"boy-17-shot-in-head-by-bronx-gunman-on-e-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319146\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 17, shot in head by Bronx gunman on e-bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old boy was shot in the head outside a Bronx apartment building by a gunman riding an e-bike Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/04\/nypd-record-low-shootings-murders-first-seven-months-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was struck on the left side of his head while on E. 228th St. near Bronxwood Ave. in Wakefield just before 7 p.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the teen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/jacobi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacobi Medical Center<\/a>, where he\u2019s expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman, who was wearing all black, was last seen speeding off on an e-bike, said police.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy was shot in the head outside a Bronx apartment building by a gunman riding an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-319146","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-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\/319146","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=319146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}