{"id":320413,"date":"2026-08-13T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:34:09","slug":"teen-15-found-shot-in-head-and-boy-13-injured-in-nyc-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320413\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen, 15, found shot in head and boy, 13, injured in NYC apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy was killed and another 13-year-old wounded in a Bronx apartment Wednesday night, according to police \u2014 who are still searching for the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Billingslea was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head by cops responding to a 911 call for shots fired inside an apartment on Claflin Avenue around 5:30 p.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police spoke with witnesses at the scene and tracked down a second shooting victim, a 13-year-old boy, to his home, where he was found with a graze wound to his torso, sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40320168\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/23-pm-police-responded-found-137284477.jpg\" alt=\"An NYPD police car is parked on the street outside 2825 Claflin Avenue in the Bronx, New York, where 15-year-old Riley Billingslea was fatally shot.\" class=\"wp-image-40320168\"  \/>NYPD officers work the scene where 15-year-old Riley Billingslea was fatally shot on Thursday, August 13, 2026. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40320195\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/23-pm-police-responded-found-137284398.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD officer at the scene of a shooting in the Bronx, New York.\" class=\"wp-image-40320195\"  \/>NYPD officers work the scene of the apartment shooting. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The victim claimed that he saw Billingslea and the shooting suspect get into some kind of dispute, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The younger teen was hit by a ricocheted bullet and sent to hospital in stable condition, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, police said Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy was killed and another 13-year-old wounded in a Bronx apartment Wednesday night, according to police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57,9,24,63,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-320413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320413","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=320413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}