{"id":82824,"date":"2025-12-28T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82824\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T16:27:06","slug":"nypd-15-year-old-from-connecticut-was-shot-and-killed-while-visiting-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82824\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD: 15-year-old from Connecticut was shot and killed while visiting the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ER4JIE3HKVF7FDGY2JNMWEVFSU\">A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed Saturday evening in the Bronx, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OHQWJVY3ZBESDC46UWN3GHX6O4\">Police identified the victim as Eric Aitken, 15, of Waterbury, Connecticut. He was found inside 1219 Adee Ave., with a gunshot wound to the chest, said the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"75BK3XKK7BH73J34LJFZC5JSKM\">Officers responded around 6:25 p.m. Saturday to a 911 call reporting shots fired at the location. Upon arrival, they discovered Aitken unconscious and unresponsive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JBBHL6QRXFFCZA5GLJNFMM6ENM\">EMS transported him to NYC Health and Hospitals in Jacobi in critical condition, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FGYJCEOYWFEHTGZTVD3LUI3USM\">Police also found a 14-year-old boy in front of 2909 Laconia Ave., with a gunshot wound to the left arm. Officers transported the teen to Jacobi Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KGUGCBVSHNE7FPD322XXITKBPA\">There are no arrests at this time, and the investigation remains ongoing, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed Saturday evening in the Bronx, police said in a statement. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-82824","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\/82824","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=82824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}