A 48-year-old Bronx man has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting that killed an 18-year-old man and wounded four other people in the Eastchester section of the Bronx last month, police said.<\/p>\n
Billy Perez, 48, of Marion Avenue in the Bronx, was arrested Tuesday, Sept. 21. He faces charges of intentional murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened around 5:40 a.m. Aug. 23 near East 233rd Street and was reported to police through a 911 call.<\/p>\n
Police said an 18-year-old man was shot in the head, a 20-year-old woman was shot in the foot and a 22-year-old man was shot in the chest. The 18-year-old, identified as Werling Mendez, of the Bronx, was taken by private means to BronxCare Health System in critical condition and later died.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old and 22-year-old victims were transported by EMS to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n
Police were also informed that a 25-year-old woman was taken to BronxCare Health System and a 37-year-old woman was transported to Jacobi Hospital. Both were reported in stable condition, according to an NYPD spokesperson.<\/p>\n
Police did not provide additional details about the circumstances leading to the shooting or the allegations against Perez. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year-old Bronx man has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting that killed an 18-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,7575],"class_list":["post-354003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sc0905"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354003","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=354003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}