{"id":329744,"date":"2026-08-26T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329744\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T01:00:49","slug":"16-year-old-surrenders-in-bronx-shooting-death-of-riley-billingslea-same-day-as-teen-victims-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329744\/","title":{"rendered":"16 year old surrenders in Bronx shooting death of Riley Billingslea same day as teen victim&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teen sought for shooting 15-year-old Riley Billingslea dead in a Bronx apartment was arrested on murder charges Tuesday as the victim\u2019s family sat at the victim\u2019s funeral and made a plea for his surrender, officials and family members said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops charged the 16-year-old suspect with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon for the fatal shooting of Billingslea on Aug. 12, police said. The teen gunman\u2019s name is being withheld due to his age.<\/p>\n<p>He surrendered to authorities just hours before Riley\u2019s family held the teen\u2019s funeral in Brooklyn \u2014 and made another plea for the gun-toting teen to surrender.<\/p>\n<p>Billingslea was shot in the head inside the Castle Arms apartment building in Kingsbridge, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Riley Billingslea, 15, was fatally shot in the head in the Castle Arms apartment building on Claflin Ave. near W. 197th St. in the Bronx on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787706049_861_TNY-P16-20260813-104558.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9187066\" \/>Riley Billingslea, 15, was fatally shot in the head in the Castle Arms apartment building on Claflin Ave. near W. 197th St. in the Bronx on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>A 13-year-old boy, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/14\/bronx-boy-13-in-shooting-that-left-pal-riley-billingslea-dead-was-saved-by-cellphone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grazed in the shooting<\/a>, said he and his friends were \u201changing out\u201d in the apartment when the shooter began horsing around with the black handgun in the Claflin Ave. apartment building near W. 197th St. There were about a half-dozen teens in the apartment at the time of the shooting, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in the house. (He) was playing with the gun, a black gun,\u201d he said. \u201cWe told him to take the magazine out of the gun, but he wouldn\u2019t listen to us. I was sitting next to Riley. I was right there next to Riley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next thing the teen knew, his ears were ringing, and his friend was covered in blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was checking myself and I saw the blood,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to see that. So I just left. I\u2019m so sorry. It\u2019s emotional. Riley didn\u2019t deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen sought for shooting 15-year-old Riley Billingslea dead in a Bronx apartment was arrested on murder charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-329744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","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\/329744","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=329744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}