{"id":320073,"date":"2026-08-13T04:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320073\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T04:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:30:23","slug":"teen-accused-of-shooting-17-year-old-in-the-head-in-the-bronx-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320073\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen accused of shooting 17-year-old in the head in the Bronx: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WAKEFIELD, The Bronx (PIX11) &#8212; A 14-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly shooting a teen in the head on a Bronx street Tuesday night, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect was riding a bike when he pulled a gun and fired several rounds at a 17-year-old boy on East 228th Street in Wakefield just before 7 p.m., authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Get ongoing crime and safety coverage on our homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Get ongoing crime and safety coverage on our homepage\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 17-year-old was talking to someone on the sidewalk when the gunfire erupted. The victim was hit once and suffered a graze wound to te left side of his head, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 14-year-old then fled on his bike before he was arrested at around 2:35 a.m. Wednesday. The suspect was charged with attempted murder, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dominique Jack is a digital content producer from Brooklyn with more than five years of experience covering news. She joined PIX11 in 2024. More of her work can be found <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/dominique-jack\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAKEFIELD, The Bronx (PIX11) &#8212; A 14-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly shooting a teen in the head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-320073","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\/320073","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=320073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}