{"id":51626,"date":"2025-11-25T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51626\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:52:37","slug":"woman-59-arrested-for-murdering-young-bronx-man-with-3-gunshots-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51626\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 59, arrested for murdering young Bronx man with 3 gunshots to head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 59-year-old woman has been arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/11\/23\/young-man-shot-multiple-times-in-the-head-in-the-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">murdering a young man<\/a> in the Bronx with three gunshots to the head, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Denise Aponte was charged Monday with murder, manslaughter and gun possession for allegdly killing Randy Blanche, 24, a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Police initially believed the shooting involved some sort of domestic relationship but an <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD<\/a> spokeswoman said Tuesday the suspect did not know the victim.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A 24-year-old man was fatally shot at the corner of W. 174th St. and Popham Ave. in the Bronx on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TNY-P8-20251124-082714.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8609443\" \/>A 24-year-old man was fatally shot at the corner of W. 174th St. and Popham Ave. in the Bronx on Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Blanche was shot on the street outside the Sedgwick Houses, just around the corner from the buildng where the suspect lives, just before 8 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Blanche was rushed by medics from the scene at W. 174th St. and Popham Ave. in Morris Heights to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronxcare.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BronxCare<\/a> Health System but he could not be saved. He was about a mile-and-a-half from home when he was killed, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 59-year-old woman has been arrested for murdering a young man in the Bronx with three gunshots to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,28685,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-51626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-its-not-clear-what-sparked-the-shooting","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/51626","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=51626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}