{"id":353933,"date":"2026-09-22T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353933\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:32:49","slug":"nyc-teen-mom-shot-in-laundromat-in-apparently-targeted-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353933\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC teen, mom shot in laundromat in apparently targeted attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A city teen and his mother were shot in a<\/a> laundromat in what appeared to be a targeted attack Monday evening, cops and law-enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n

The boy, 17, and his mom, 37, were both struck in the right leg<\/a> when the gunman stormed up to them and opened fire at Astor Laundromat on Astor Avenue near Holland Avenue in Allerton in The Bronx, according to police and sources.<\/p>\n

Both victims were taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where they were listed in stable condition, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officers from the 49th precinct respond to a report of shots fired near a laundromat at 750 Astor Ave. in the Bronx on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n

A city teen, 17, and his 37-year-old mother were shot in a targeted attack at a Bronx laundromat Monday evening. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n

Investigators believe the shooter <\/a>was aiming for the mother and son, but the motive was not immediately known, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cops say the gunman, described as a man in his 20s, fled the scene and has not yet been caught by authorities. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n

The gunman is described as a man believed to be in his 20s, standing about 5-foot-6, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He fled the scene after the burst of gunfire and had not been caught <\/a>by Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A city teen and his mother were shot in a laundromat in what appeared to be a targeted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57,9,24,63,3980,129,131,130,58,3301],"class_list":["post-353933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353933","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=353933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}