{"id":370044,"date":"2026-10-10T23:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370044\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T23:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:24:43","slug":"news-12-bronx-arrest-made-in-2025-west-farms-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370044\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Arrest Made In 2025 West Farms Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man was arrested and charged in connection with a 2025 homicide that happened in the West Farms section of the Bronx, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources close to the investigation say Christopher Lawton, 36, fled to Ohio after allegedly shooting <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/man-fatally-shot-in-west-farms-identified\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">25-year-old Chanler Reams<\/a> inside their apartment building, located at 2111 Southern Blvd.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the shooting happened at around 5:45 p.m. on Nov. 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/25-year-old-man-fatally-shot-in-west-farms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found Reams<\/a> unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics pronounced the 25-year-old dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police sources say Lawton was captured in Ohio back on May 1, then extradited to New York City more than five months later. The NYPD announced his arrest on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Lawton is now charged with murder, two counts of assault and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Information about the relationship between Lawton and Reams, and whether they lived together, was not immediately released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested and charged in connection with a 2025 homicide that happened in the West Farms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-370044","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\/370044","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=370044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}