{"id":328534,"date":"2026-08-24T17:34:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328534\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:34:58","slug":"news-12-bronx-1-dead-4-wounded-in-eastchester-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328534\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 1 Dead 4 Wounded In Eastchester Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An 18-year-old man was killed, and four other people were injured in a shooting in Eastchester Sunday morning, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded to a 911 call for a shooting at 1710 E 233rd St at 5:42 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When officers arrived, they found 18-year-old Werling Mendez with a gunshot wound to the head, and four other people wounded. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mendez was transported by private means to BronxCare Health System in critical condition, where he was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The four other victims, including a 20-year-old woman shot in the foot and a 22-year-old man shot in the chest, were taken to NYC Health and Hospitals \/ Jacobi in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 25-year-old woman and a 37-year-old woman were also hospitalized in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police confirm an unidentified individual opened fire before running off in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man was killed, and four other people were injured in a shooting in Eastchester Sunday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-328534","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\/328534","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=328534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}