{"id":82691,"date":"2025-12-28T12:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82691\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:37:04","slug":"15-year-old-boy-killed-14-year-old-wounded-in-bronx-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82691\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old boy killed, 14-year-old wounded in Bronx shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766925424_497_nypd-file.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; A 15-year-old boy is dead and another teen was injured after a shooting inside a Bronx residence and nearby street Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police say officers responded to a 911 call reporting shots fired at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday at 1219 Adee Avenue, within the confines of the NYPD\u2019s 49th Precinct.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">When officers arrived, they found a 15-year-old male suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. EMS transported the teen to NYC Health and Hospitals\/Jacobi in critical condition, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police also located a 14-year-old male in front of 2909 Laconia Avenue, also within the 49th Precinct, who had suffered a gunshot wound to the left arm. Officers transported the teen in a marked patrol vehicle to NYC Health and Hospitals\/Jacobi, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">On Sunday, police identified the deceased as Eric Aitken, 15, of Waterbury, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police have not released a suspect description or information about a possible motive. Investigators have not said whether the two teens were targeted or how the shooting unfolded.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No arrests have been made. The investigation remains ongoing as detectives work to identify those responsible and determine the circumstances surrounding the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from the New York City Police Department\u2019s 49th Precinct.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/bronx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK &#8211; A 15-year-old boy is dead and another teen was injured after a shooting inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,850,9,24,12,56,63,129,131,130,618],"class_list":["post-82691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82691","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=82691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}