{"id":376813,"date":"2026-10-19T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376813\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:00:52","slug":"subway-shooting-victim-idd-as-darell-rodriguez-from-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376813\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway shooting victim ID&#8217;d as Darell Rodriguez from the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The straphanger <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/17\/us-news\/1-person-shot-in-the-chest-inside-nyc-subway-station-nypd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gunned down on a subway platform<\/a> over the weekend has been identified as a 26-year-old from the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Darell Rodriguez was shot in the chest at around 12:20 p.m. Saturday at the 53rd Street\/7th Avenue subway station in Midtown Manhattan by an unidentified stranger who then fled the scene, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez is believed to have been heading home from work as a security guard at the front desk of a Manhattan building, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>A man dressed in red, identified as one of the alleged gunmen, flees the scene. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n<p>He was waiting for a northbound E train to his home in University Heights in the Bronx when his killer approached him, displayed his gun, and shot him once, police sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had a dispute on the platform, although details remain unclear, NYPD Deputy Chief Keith Shine said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The killer then left the station traveling northbound on 7th Ave., and is still on the loose, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>He was last seen wearing a red tracksuit, a black vest and face mask, and carrying a backpack.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether the killer knew his victim, but police emphasized the shooting was targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Police rush to help the victim. Sofia Poznansky\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Police investigate after a person was shot in a Midtown subway station on the 7th Avenue platform at 53rd Street in New York, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. Michael McWeeney\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival just after 1:00 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez\u2019s shooting marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/18\/us-news\/nyc-transit-murders-nearly-double-over-last-year-after-broad-daylight-shooting-at-crowded-midtown-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seventh murder in the New York City transit system<\/a> this year and the fourth gun death, up from two over the same period in 2025, according to NYPD statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The straphanger gunned down on a subway platform over the weekend has been identified as a 26-year-old from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,75,57,141,9,24,63,3980,615,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-376813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shootings","tag-subway","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376813","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=376813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}