{"id":45462,"date":"2025-11-20T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45462\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:23:08","slug":"nypd-shares-photos-of-woman-sought-in-shooting-of-man-dumped-at-bronx-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45462\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD shares photos of woman sought in shooting of man dumped at Bronx hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cops have released photos of a woman who is being sought in connection with the shooting death of a man who was dumped behind a Bronx hospital.<\/a><\/p>\n

The suspect, described as between 20 and 25 years old, sporting long red hair, a tattoo on her right forearm and a black crop top, fled the scene after Jontay Davis, 21, was shot twice in the head inside a vehicle around 2 a.m. on Sept. 2, cops said. Police found Davis behind St. Barnabas Hospital<\/a> and rushed him inside but he could not be saved, cops said.<\/p>\n

Xavier Kearney, 23, was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon Monday in connection with Davis\u2019s shooting. He was ordered held without bail Tuesday at his arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 11, nine days after the shooting, cops nabbed Desean Edwards, 22, who was also ordered held without bail after being charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n

Kearney lives in Soundview, in the Bronx, and Edwards lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn, cops said.<\/p>\n

The two of them, along with the female suspect, were in possession of two firearms, according to court documents. It remains unclear who actually was the shooter.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s grief-stricken mother said Davis had just graduated high school and wanted to be a mechanic.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a beautiful child,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Davis\u2019 older sister created a GoFundMe to cover his funeral expenses.<\/p>\n

Her brother, she wrote<\/a>, was \u201cleft for dead at the back of St. Barnabas Hospital,\u00a0discarded as if he were nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pain and shock of losing him in such a heartbreaking and cruel way is something our family will carry forever,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJontay was only 21 years old, full of life, dreams, and love for the people around him. He was a son, a brother, an uncle, and a friend who deserved so much more time here with us. Jontay also lived with autism, which gave him a unique and beautiful way of seeing the world,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHe touched everyone he met with his kindness, his big heart, and his special spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops have released photos of a woman who is being sought in connection with the shooting death of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45463,"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-45462","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\/45462","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=45462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}