{"id":339635,"date":"2026-09-07T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339635\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:19:00","slug":"news-12-bronx-man-wounded-in-shooting-inside-melrose-apartment-building-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339635\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Man Wounded In Shooting Inside Melrose Apartment Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An apartment building employee in Melrose was shot late Sunday morning while confronting a man who was allegedly trying to steal work supplies, police sources say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It happened around 11:30 a.m. inside 508 East 163rd St.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the NYPD, the 47-year-old victim saw the man in a restricted personnel-only area.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the victim confronted him as he attempted to leave the building with the stolen goods.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to investigators, a fight broke out between the two men, during which the alleged thief took out a gun and fired.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 47-year-old man was shot in the leg.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics took him to Lincoln Hospital, where he is expected to recover, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police released images of the man they believe pulled the trigger. He is pictured wearing a black sweatshirt with pink writing on the front and black sweatpants with the same pink lettering down the leg.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No arrests have been made as of Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An apartment building employee in Melrose was shot late Sunday morning while confronting a man who was allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-339635","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\/339635","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=339635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}