{"id":359435,"date":"2026-09-29T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359435\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:32:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-family-confirms-second-person-has-died-following-university-heights-barbershop-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359435\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Family Confirms Second Person Has Died Following University Heights Barbershop Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A second person has died as a result of a fire at a University Heights barbershop.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The family of Willy Reyes says he died following a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/6-injured-after-fire-tears-through-university-heights-barbershop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire at La Roka Barbershop <\/a>at 31 W. Burnside Ave. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Candles were lit outside the business Monday night, as those who knew Reyes gathered to hold a vigil, pay their respects and honor his life.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The family of <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/woman-dies-after-being-severely-burned-in-bronx-barbershop-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shanti Quinones<\/a>, who was severely burned inside the barbershop, confirmed she died on Aug. 28. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY has said that the fire was caused by a lithium-ion battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second person has died as a result of a fire at a University Heights barbershop. The family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-359435","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\/359435","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=359435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}