{"id":320343,"date":"2026-08-13T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320343\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:44:07","slug":"bronx-boy-15-fatally-shot-in-head-in-apparent-accidental-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320343\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx boy, 15, fatally shot in head in apparent accidental shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/04\/nypd-record-low-shootings-murders-first-seven-months-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally shot in the head<\/a> and a 13-year-old boy grazed in an apparent accidental shooting in a Bronx apartment building, police sources said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/10\/teen-boy-shot-dead-in-bronx-house-while-he-and-pal-play-around-with-gun\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second time in just two days<\/a> a Bronx teen was killed in an accidental shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Billingslea was shot in the head in the Castle Arms apartment building on Claflin Ave. near W. 197th St. in Kingsbridge about 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, cops said. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed a 13-year-old boy grazed in the torso to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Riley lived in an apartment just under a mile away from the building where he was killed, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting is believed to have been accidental, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>About 5:10 a.m. Monday, 16-year-old John Nunez was fatally shot in the head in his best friend\u2019s family\u2019s house on Prospect Ave. near E.169th St. \u2014 apparently as he and the friend were playing around with a gun, police said. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has been charged in John\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hurt. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/10\/teen-boy-shot-dead-in-bronx-house-while-he-and-pal-play-around-with-gun\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We\u2019re devastated<\/a>. Our hearts are shattered,\u201d John\u2019s oldest sister, Sol Nunez, said at John\u2019s family\u2019s home a few blocks from where he was killed Monday evening. \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head and a 13-year-old boy grazed in an apparent accidental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,265],"class_list":["post-320343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","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-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320343","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=320343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}