{"id":320346,"date":"2026-08-13T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320346\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:48:47","slug":"15-year-old-boy-shot-dead-in-bronx-apartment-another-teen-wounded-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320346\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old boy shot dead in Bronx apartment, another teen wounded: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/nypd-vehicle-file-lloyd-mitchell.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"police vehicle on darkened block at scene of crime\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"15-year-old boy shot dead in Bronx apartment, another teen wounded: NYPD 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 An NYPD Crime Scene Unit vehicle at a homicide scene.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/bronx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bronx<\/a> are working to nail down exactly what took place in an apartment on Tuesday evening after a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head and a younger teen was grazed by a bullet.<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, police from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd50pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">50th Precinct<\/a> were called to 2825 Claflin Ave. in Kingsbridge Heights at around 5:23 p.m. on Aug. 11 after a 911 caller reported that a person had been shot.<\/p>\n<p>When cops arrived, they found 15-year-old boy Riley Billingslea with a gunshot wound to the head. EMS responded and pronounced Billingslea dead at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, police tracked 13-year-old boy to his home and found him with a graze wound to his torso. He was rushed to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where he is expected to recover. It is believed his wound may have been from a bullet that ricocheted.<\/p>\n<p>While the investigation is still ongoing, police sources report that the incident is being probed as a possible dispute inside the apartment with a third teen. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/bronx\/teen-shot-dead-gunplay-bronx-08102026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This is the second time this week a teen has died via a gunshot wound in a Bronx apartment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, 16-year-old John Nunez lost his life after he and another teen had been horsing with a gun when it went off and killed him.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 An NYPD Crime Scene Unit vehicle at a homicide scene. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,9,24,63,103,104,1096,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-320346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-shooting","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\/320346","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=320346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}