{"id":320579,"date":"2026-08-13T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320579\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:50:09","slug":"15-year-old-boy-fatally-shot-in-head-inside-ny-apartment-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320579\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old boy fatally shot in head inside NY apartment: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (TNND)  \u2014 A 15-year-old boy was killed &#8212; and a 13-year-old boy was hurt &#8212; during a shooting inside a Bronx apartment, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Police Department on Thursday identified the 15 year old as Riley Billingslea.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers responded to a 911 call reporting a person shot who was shot on Wednesday shortly before 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found Billingslea with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced him dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers also found a 13-year-old boy &#8212; who was not identified &#8212; with a graze wound to his torso. He was taken by ambulance to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not say what led up to the shooting or whether the teenagers knew each other. <\/p>\n<p>Police also did not release a description of a suspect or indicate whether investigators know who fired the shots.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests had been made, with detectives continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 A 15-year-old boy was killed &#8212; and a 13-year-old boy was hurt &#8212; during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-320579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320579","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=320579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}