A woman has been arrested in connection to a fatal shooting in Morris Heights on Sunday.<\/p>\n
It was originally reported that Denise Aponte, 59, was arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Randy Blanche.<\/p>\n
In new information gathered from a court arraignment, the District Attorney’s Office says that Aponte acted in consult with her husband, Marcos Rodriguez.<\/p>\n
There daughters were engaged in an argument with five others. Shoving broke out, and that\u2019s when prosecution says Aponte told her husband to go down there with a weapon.<\/p>\n
Prosecution also stated video captured the moment the shooting happened.<\/p>\n
Aponte\u2019s lawyer, Jason Gazewood told News 12 there was a phone call, but there was no mention of a weapon during said call. <\/p>\n
They say Rodriguez then shot Blanche in the head three times in front of a building on West 174th Street. He was pronounced dead at Bronx Care Hospital.<\/p>\n
Aponte faces 25 years to life and will be back in court on Nov. 26.<\/p>\n
Video taken from the scene showed police arresting multiple individuals. There is no word on any other arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested in connection to a fatal shooting in Morris Heights on Sunday. It was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,2834,3283,128,2464,786,9,24,63,1096,3980,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-52828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-arrests","tag-bronx","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shooting","tag-shootings","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\/52828","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=52828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}