{"id":336991,"date":"2026-09-03T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336991\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:51:06","slug":"news-12-bronx-gunman-rips-chain-off-victims-neck-in-the-bronx-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336991\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Gunman Rips Chain Off Victims Neck In The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police are investigating a gunpoint robbery in Van Cortlandt Village where a chain was stolen.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say the incident happened on July 25, near Sedgwick and Hillman avenues.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a 66-year-old man was getting out of his vehicle when an unknown person approached him from behind, showed him a firearm and forcibly removed a chain from his neck.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The person then left the scene on a Citi Bike southbound on Orloff Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the victim had a laceration on his elbow but refused medical attention.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a gunpoint robbery in Van Cortlandt Village where a chain was stolen. They say the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-336991","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\/336991","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=336991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}