{"id":82792,"date":"2025-12-28T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82792\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:27:08","slug":"connecticut-teen-killed-another-youth-injured-in-gun-violence-at-public-housing-complex-amnewyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82792\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut teen killed, another youth injured in gun violence at public housing complex \u2013 amNewYork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-28-at-9.33.38-AM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bronx double shooting scene\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Bronx double shooting: Connecticut teen killed, another youth injured in gun violence at public housing complex 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Bronx detectives are on the hunt for the suspect who shot two teens at a public housing complex on Saturday night, Dec. 27, 2025, killing one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot via Citizen<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/bronx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bronx<\/a> detectives are on the hunt for the suspect who shot two teens at a public housing complex on Saturday night, killing one of them.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said the bloodshed occurred at the Eastchester Gardens Houses located at 1219 Adee Ave. at about 6:25 p.m. on Dec. 27.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd49pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">49th Precinct<\/a> rushed to the location after receiving a 911 call about shots fired inside the complex. Upon arriving at the scene, they found 15-year-old Eric Aitken of Waterbury, CT, with a gunshot wound to his chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed Aitken to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition; he would later be pronounced dead at the facility.\n<\/p>\n<p>During the preliminary investigation, cops located a second victim, a 14-year-old shot in the left arm, in front of a building on the 2900 block of Laconia Avenue, about a quarter-mile from the Adee Avenue location where the shooting was first reported.<\/p>\n<p>Officers rushed the wounded teenager in their own marked police cruiser to Jacobi Hospital. He was listed in stable condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the shooting was not disclosed. So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation, police said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the incident can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx detectives are on the hunt for the suspect who shot two teens at a public housing complex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[29369,128,4452,2443,784,40659,786,787,16458,9,24,10,63,40660,40661,793,40662,11331,40663,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-82792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-49th-precinct","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-bronx-crime","11":"tag-bronx-shooting","12":"tag-crime-stoppers","13":"tag-eastchester-gardens","14":"tag-fatal-shooting","15":"tag-gun-violence","16":"tag-jacobi-hospital","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-new-york-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-investigation","22":"tag-nycha-incident","23":"tag-police-search","24":"tag-public-housing-safety","25":"tag-teen-victims","26":"tag-teen-violence","27":"tag-the-bronx","28":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","29":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82792","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=82792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}