{"id":32759,"date":"2025-11-08T02:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32759\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:59:07","slug":"16-year-old-boy-shot-in-the-back-in-the-bronx-followed-earlier-incident-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32759\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old boy shot in the back in the Bronx, followed earlier incident: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 16-year-old Bronx boy was shot in the back while trying to run away from a group of masked assailants, police and witnesses said Friday.<\/p>\n

Cops are investigating if the shooting was related to an earlier incident in the same area, police sources told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

Cops responding to a call about a man shot near E. 161st St. and Forest Ave. in the South Bronx<\/a> found the boy with a gunshot wound to the back around 9:30 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n

EMS rushed the boy in stable condition to Harlem Hospital<\/a>. He is expected to recover.<\/p>\n

\"AA 16yr old boy was taken to Harlem Hospital after he was shot once in the back on East 161st Street at Forest Avenue in the Bronx on Friday Nov. 7, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The victim was walking alone when a group of three or four young men, all wearing masks, appeared and shouted out a name, prompting the victim to turn around and start running in the opposite direction, said a 38-year-old woman who witnessed the scene but asked not to be identified.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey called the other boy\u2019s name, and when they called his name he responded. One young man approached him, pulled out a weapon, fired, and as he was trying to run away, he fell,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw him get hit in the back, and I went to do triage,\u201d said the witness, a former nurse. \u201cI called 911. Hopefully he\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wound \u201cwasn\u2019t bleeding a lot, but it was close to the spine,\u201d said the witness, who stayed with the victim until the ambulance arrived. \u201cHe was conscious. He was okay. I told him to relax and not to move and to stay down, and I assessed the wound,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The witness, who was working on a construction job nearby, said she quit nursing after eight years because it was too traumatic. The shooting made her think about her own child, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still in shock, because I had just checked my cameras in my house and my 16 year old is at home, washing the dishes for me,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, yeah. I cried a little bit and got back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the victim collapsed, the group dispersed, the witness said.<\/p>\n

Police are investigating the shooting, which may be connected to an earlier shooting in the same area in which no one was hurt, a source told The News.<\/p>\n

Cops could not immediately confirm if the two incidents were related, or provide information about a possible earlier shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old Bronx boy was shot in the back while trying to run away from a group of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-32759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32759","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=32759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}