{"id":86582,"date":"2026-01-01T15:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86582\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:10:14","slug":"man-55-found-dead-in-bronx-burning-car-after-being-shot-in-head-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86582\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 55, found dead in Bronx burning car after being shot in head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:shot in the head;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shot in the head<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/fdny\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FDNY;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No arrests have been made. Investigators are working to determine what sparked the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NYPD ended 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:with a 20% drop in homicides citywide compared to last year;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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","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":86583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,41910,11204,9,24,63,103,41647,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-86582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-burning-car","10":"tag-car-fire","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nypd","15":"tag-shot-in-the-head","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86582","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=86582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}