A Bronx man was found shot to death in a stairwell at a public housing building in the borough Sunday night, breaking what police say was a record streak of no reported homicides in the city.<\/p>\n
NYPD officers responding to a 911 call just after 9 p.m. found 38-year old Gregory Stewart with a gunshot wound to his head at NYCHA\u2019s Sotomayor Houses on Watson Avenue in Soundview, officials said. Stewart lived in Wakefield, more than four miles away, according to police.<\/p>\n
Emergency medical workers transported him to Jacobi Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police said they took a person into custody but haven\u2019t announced any charges yet as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n
NYPD data<\/a> shows shootings in the 43rd Precinct, which includes Soundview, were up 30% through November, compared to the same point last year. There were 11 homicides in the precinct by the end of November, down one from the same point last year. Citywide<\/a>, shootings and homicides have declined 23% and 21%, respectively, since last year.<\/p>\n Officials said up until Stewart was killed the city had gone 12 days without a homicide, tying a record for the longest stretch without a homicide, last set in 2015. This year, the city also reported its least shootings on record for the first 11 months of the year, officials added.<\/p>\n This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx man was found shot to death in a stairwell at a public housing building in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-64266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","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\/64266","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=64266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}