{"id":353646,"date":"2026-09-22T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353646\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:06:52","slug":"man-48-arrested-for-shooting-teen-to-death-at-wild-bronx-car-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353646\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 48, arrested for shooting teen to death at wild Bronx car meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 48-year-old suspect has been arrested for killing a teen at a wild Bronx car meetup<\/a> last month that saw more than 60 shots fired<\/a>, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Billy Perez was charged Monday with murder, manslaughter and gun possession for the Aug. 23 killing of 18-year-old Werling Mendez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A 22-year-old man shot in the chest and a 20-year-old woman shot in the foot survived the barrage of bullets. At least one other gunman is still being sought.<\/p>\n

The shooting appears to have been sparked by the robbery of two women near the scene on E. 233rd St. near Boston Road in Baychester.<\/p>\n

A 25-year-old woman \u00a0was delivering slushies when her wallet and gold link chain were stolen and a 37-year-old woman had her Cuban link chain and cell phone stolen as one of three crooks held a gun to her head.<\/p>\n

It was not clear Tuesday if Mendez is accused of being involved in the robberies. His arraignment was pending in Bronx Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

Car meetups<\/a> have caused concern in neighborhoods around the city, with dozens of souped-up cars converging on quiet streets, where the drivers drag race and perform dangerous stunts.<\/p>\n

The NYPD tracks meetups promoted on social media but some are organized too quickly for authorities to react.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year-old suspect has been arrested for killing a teen at a wild Bronx car meetup last month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-353646","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-new-york-news","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\/353646","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=353646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}