{"id":86575,"date":"2026-01-01T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86575\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:00:07","slug":"man-55-found-dead-in-bronx-burning-car-after-being-shot-in-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86575\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 55, found dead in Bronx burning car after being shot in head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 55-year-old man was found dead in a burning car in the Bronx Thursday morning after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/24\/nyc-sees-1000-fewer-shooting-victims-in-2025-than-4-years-ago-nypd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot in the head<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n<p>While the city Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine exactly how the victim died, cops expect the case to be New York City\u2019s first homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/fdny\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FDNY<\/a> firefighters responding to a 6:50 a.m. car fire on Morris Ave. near the Cross Bronx Expressway service road found the victim dead inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Once the fire was put out, investigators determined he had been shot at least twice in the head. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made. Investigators are working to determine what sparked the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD ended 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with a 20% drop in homicides citywide compared to last year<\/a>. As of Tuesday, cops had investigated 303 killing across the five boroughs compared to 381slayings by the same date last year.<\/p>\n<p>The number of shooting victims in the city has dropped 22% this year, with 853 victims through Tuesday compared to 1,101 people shot by the same point last year, NYPD stats show.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 55-year-old man was found dead in a burning car in the Bronx Thursday morning after being shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-86575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","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\/86575","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=86575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}