{"id":324570,"date":"2026-08-19T01:48:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324570\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T01:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T01:48:57","slug":"vigil-held-in-the-bronx-for-15-year-old-shot-and-killed-in-kingsbridge-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324570\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil held in the Bronx for 15-year-old shot and killed in Kingsbridge Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">Family and friends gathered for an emotional vigil in the Bronx to honor 15-year-old Riley Billingslea, who was tragically shot and killed in a Kingsbridge Heights apartment building. As police continue searching for the suspect, the teenager&#8217;s family called for an end to gun violence and urged anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0August 18, 2026 9:13pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family and friends gathered for an emotional vigil in the Bronx to honor 15-year-old Riley Billingslea, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-324570","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\/324570","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=324570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}