{"id":353034,"date":"2026-09-22T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353034\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T01:46:09","slug":"teen-16-arrested-in-fatal-bronx-gunplay-shooting-that-left-another-16-year-old-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353034\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen, 16, arrested in fatal Bronx gunplay shooting that left another 16 year old dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old teen was arrested and charged with murder six weeks after another teen was shot in the head and killed as they<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/20\/16-year-old-bronx-boy-killed-by-friend-playing-with-gun-thought-pistol-was-empty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> played with a loaded gun<\/a> in a Bronx home.<\/p>\n<p>Cops said the unidentified suspect was arrested Monday in the Bronx, and charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>In the hours after John Nunez, 16 died on Aug. 10 in the bedroom of a home on Prospect Ave. near E.169th St., cops said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/10\/teen-boy-shot-dead-in-bronx-house-while-he-and-pal-play-around-with-gun\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Nunez and two other teens were playing with a pistol.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the teens asked Nunez if there was a bullet in the chamber, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.<\/p>\n<p>When Nunez told\u00a0 him, \u2018No,\u201d the other teen popped out the magazine, pointed the pistol at Nunez, and pulled the trigger, Kenny said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez was shot around 5:10 a.m. and died at the scene. At the time, Kenny described the shooting as an accident.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old who pulled the trigger ran off, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Police questioned the third friend, an 18-year-old boy, but the older teen wasn\u2019t charged, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen suspect ran off with the pistol, but left the magazine behind, Kenny said. A shell casing was also recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The teen cops were looking for has five prior arrests for crimes that include burglary and robbery, Kenny said.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez was a student at Metropolitan High School and was the youngest of three siblings, with two older sisters. He enjoyed playing basketball and video games, his sister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old teen was arrested and charged with murder six weeks after another teen was shot in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,131693,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-353034","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-teen-arrested-murder","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\/353034","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=353034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}