{"id":377371,"date":"2026-10-19T23:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377371\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T23:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:22:11","slug":"jilted-geriatrics-love-triangle-victims-uttered-three-words-to-nypd-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377371\/","title":{"rendered":"Jilted geriatric’s love-triangle victims uttered three words to NYPD cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

The jilted geriatric accused of blasting his 70-year-old gal pal and her younger flame in a Bronx love triangle gone awry was charged with attempted murder Monday \u2014 after the victims told cops, \u201cKenny shot me.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Kenneth Morgan \u2014 who authorities also revealed has a disturbing decades\u2019 long rap sheet \u2014 faces the stiff rap along with charges of assault, gun and ammunition possession and harassment over Saturday\u2019s burst of violence inside a Claremont apartment, according to cops and prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A man is hauled off on a stretcher after a shooting involving a love triangle gone awry in The Bronx over the weekend. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n

Morgan stormed into the East 173rd Street and Third Avenue building around 9:30 p.m., with video obtained by The Post showing him frantically calling his beau\u2019s name and fiddling with his waistband.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once inside the ninth-floor unit, Morgan flew into a rage when he found the woman with a 60-year-old man, law-enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The furious senior then pulled out a gun and opened fire, hitting the woman in the stomach and the younger man multiple times in the chest, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both victims pointed the finger at Morgan when questioned by cops, plainly telling them, \u201cKenny shot me,\u201d according to a complaint filed in Bronx Criminal Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The shot man and woman were allegedly targeted by the lady\u2019s jilted geriatric beau. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n

When police descended on the home, the enraged beau barricaded himself<\/a> and the victims inside, leading to a tense standoff with cops.<\/p>\n

Morgan even waved the gun \u2013 which he is not licensed to own \u2013 in the faces of two uniformed NYPD cops who responded to the volatile scene, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was eventually taken into custody by the NYPD\u2019s Emergency Service Unit.<\/p>\n

Morgan has 25 previous arrests \u2013 with his most recent from September of 2019 for gun possesion in the Charlotte Gardens section of The Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The suspect barricaded himself in the apartment before he was arrested. New York Post<\/p>\n

His record also includes arrests for burglary, robbery and theft of service, cops said.<\/p>\n

Both of his weekend victims were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where police said they were listed in stable condition, although a criminal complaint described both as \u201cintubated and unconscious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three days before the alleged jealous outburst, Morgan is accused of shooting and wounding another man in a different section of The Bronx, according to that complaint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The shooting left both victims \u201cintubated and unconscious,\u201d according to a complaint.
\n Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n

Morgan was embroiled in a feud with a separate woman inside an apartment building on Hughes Avenue near East 180th Street in Belmont around 10 p.m. Oct. 14 when her son stepped in, the court document said.<\/p>\n

He then flashed a gun and opened fire, striking the son in the right arm, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The top charge in that case was also attempted murder, according to prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was ordered held without bail in connection with both cases Monday morning, with his next appearance scheduled Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jilted geriatric accused of blasting his 70-year-old gal pal and her younger flame in a Bronx love…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3283,128,303,138417,57,9,24,63,2956,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-377371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-arrests","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-love-triangles","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-senior-citizens","tag-shootings","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\/377371","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=377371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}