{"id":53522,"date":"2025-11-26T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53522\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:06:16","slug":"bronx-woman-encouraged-husband-to-carry-out-deadly-shooting-in-morris-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53522\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx woman encouraged husband to carry out deadly shooting in Morris Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx woman is now <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/woman-arrested-in-connection-to-fatal-morris-heights-shooting-gunman-still-at-large\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facing murder charges<\/a> after prosecutors say she encouraged her husband to fatally shoot a 24-year-old man during a dispute outside the Sedgwick Houses over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bronx District Attorney\u2019s Office, 59-year-old Denise Aponte was involved in an argument Sunday night alongside her daughters when tensions escalated. Prosecutors say Aponte called her husband, Marcos Rodriguez, telling him, \u201cYou need to come downstairs\u2026 come down here,\u201d and allegedly instructing him to \u201cbring that,\u201d referring to a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors reported hearing yelling followed by a rapid burst of gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw someone arguing and someone said, \u2018Yo move, move,\u2019\u201d one neighbor told News 12. \u201cThen all I heard was bullets shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police say Aponte and Rodriguez ran away. Officers later found Aponte at her apartment on Monday morning, where she was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>She is now charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, with prosecutors pointing to both phone records and video evidence tying her to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Her attorney, Jason Gazewood, pushed back on the allegations outside court, arguing that the phone call referenced in the complaint did not mention a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about a phone call here \u2014 that\u2019s it,\u201d Gazewood said. \u201cThe phone call is in the complaint\u2026 it\u2019s \u2018Hey, come down.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t say anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aponte, who was previously sentenced to seven years in prison for a 1991 robbery, is now being presented to a grand jury. Officials have not yet said when an indictment could come.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still searching for Rodriguez, who they believe was the gunman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx woman is now facing murder charges after prosecutors say she encouraged her husband to fatally shoot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,2803,786,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-53522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-court","tag-fatal-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\/53522","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=53522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}