{"id":37604,"date":"2025-11-12T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37604\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:27:09","slug":"bronx-man-gets-7-years-for-wounding-2-year-old-boy-in-fordham-road-shooting-in-crowded-shopping-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37604\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Man Gets 7 Years for Wounding 2-Year-Old Boy in Fordham Road Shooting in Crowded Shopping Area"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBy S\u00cdLE MOLONEY<\/p>\n

\t\t\"\"<\/a>POLICE CORDON OFF the scene of a shooting during which a 2-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet on the Grand Concourse and East Fordham Road on Saturday, March 30, 2024.
Photo by David Greene<\/p>\n

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Wednesday, Nov. 12, that a Bronx man was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempted murder in the second-degree for firing shots on a crowded street, striking<\/a>\u00a0a 2-year-old boy in the back, as reported at the time, as he walked with his mother on Fordham Road in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutors said the man, Freddy Flores, was charged<\/a>\u00a0as reported, with the shooting in April 2024.<\/p>\n

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As reported<\/a>, the incident prompted a visit to Fordham Road on the day of the shooting by New York City Mayor Eric Adams and another local rally by Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis was cold-blooded gun violence that harmed a toddler the day before his third birthday and caused fear and shock to shoppers and pedestrians on busy Fordham Road on a Saturday afternoon,\u2019 Clark said. \u2018The defendant has been held accountable and now will spend years in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>POLICE CORDON OFF the scene of a shooting during which a 2-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet on the Grand Concourse and East Fordham Road on Saturday, March 30, 2024.
Photo by David Greene<\/p>\n

Clark said Flores, 20, of Walton Avenue in The Bronx was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in prison and five years post-release supervision for attempted murder in the second degree by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Timothy Lewis. She said he pleaded guilty to that charge on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n

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According to the investigation and as reported<\/a>, on Saturday, March 30, 2024, at around 1.42 p.m., at Fordham Road near the Grand Concourse in the Fordham Manor section of The Bronx, the defendant fired five shots shot at an individual and one of the bullets struck a 2-year-old boy in his lower back as he was walking on the opposite sidewalk with his mother. He was treated at New York Health + Hospitals Jacobi in Morris Park and has recovered from his injuries.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>BRONX HALL OF Justice
Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Christian Commelin of the public integrity bureau under the supervision of Cassie Perez, supervisor of the public integrity bureau, Sarah Clements, deputy chief of the public integrity bureau, Jon Veiga, chief of the public integrity bureau, and under the overall supervision of Denise Kodjo, deputy chief of the investigations division and Wanda Perez-Maldonado, chief of the investigations division.<\/p>\n

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Clark thanked NYPD Detective Ryan Lawrence of the 52nd Precinct detective squad for his work on the case.<\/p>\n

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