{"id":322176,"date":"2026-08-15T18:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322176\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:50:49","slug":"news-12-bronx-four-teens-shot-within-one-week-in-the-bronx-renewing-concerns-over-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322176\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Four Teens Shot Within One Week In The Bronx Renewing Concerns Over Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The recent shootings of four teenagers in the Bronx over four days have renewed calls for action from community members and advocates concerned about youth violence.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two of those teens have died. On Monday, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/bronx-family-mourns-16-year-old-boy-fatally-shot-in-the-head-in-morrisania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">16-year-old John Nunez was shot to death in Morrisania. <\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A day later, a 17-year-old was shot in Wakefield. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On Wednesday, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/grandmother-calls-for-justice-after-15-year-old-killed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15-year-old Riley Billingslea was killed in Kingsbridge Heights.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">On Friday, another <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/teen-critically-wounded-in-belmont-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">17-year-old was shot twice and remains in critical condition.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When News 12 reached out to the NYPD for comment regarding the recent string of teen shootings, they referred to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch&#8217;s announcement earlier this week highlighting the seizure of more than 3,000 illegal firearms citywide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDPC\/status\/2088429292333973592 \"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Of those, 782 were recovered in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Advocates stress that intervention and outreach are critical to reaching young people before another life is lost to gun violence.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent shootings of four teenagers in the Bronx over four days have renewed calls for action from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-322176","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\/322176","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=322176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}