{"id":41409,"date":"2025-11-16T17:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41409\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:41:07","slug":"gunman-with-cane-wanted-for-shooting-stranger-on-bronx-street-after-asking-victim-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41409\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman with cane wanted for shooting stranger on Bronx street after asking victim question"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 38-year-old man was shot and wounded<\/a> on a Bronx street by a stranger with a cane who asked him a question and then opened fire when the victim turned away to talk to someone else, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The bearded and bespectacled shooter approached the victim on University Ave. near Featherbed Lane<\/a> in Morris Heights and asked him a question about 8:45 p.m. Nov. 8 , cops said. After the victim turned away to talk to someone else, the gunman opened fire, striking the victim multiple times all over his body, police said.<\/p>\n

\"ACops released surveillance footage of the suspect and are asking the public’s help identifying him and tracking him own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the victim to St. Barnabas Hospital in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n

The shooter ran off east on Featherbed Lane and hung a quick right onto Nelson Ave. to escape, police said.<\/p>\n

Cops released surveillance footage of the suspect and are asking the public\u2019s help identifying him and tracking him own.<\/p>\n

He is described as between 50 and 65 with a medium complexion and about 6-feet tall. He was wearing a black jacket, dark-colored pants, blue-and-white sneakers and a knit hat.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old man was shot and wounded on a Bronx street by a stranger with a cane who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-41409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","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\/41409","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=41409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}