{"id":86649,"date":"2026-01-01T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86649\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:40:08","slug":"rideshare-driver-found-shot-dead-in-car-in-what-could-be-nycs-first-homicide-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86649\/","title":{"rendered":"Rideshare driver found shot dead in car in what could be NYC&#8217;s first homicide of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rideshare driver was fatally shot in the head in the Bronx early Thursday \u2013 in what appears to be the city\u2019s first homicide of the year, according to cops and a report.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old victim was found with a mortal gunshot wound to the head when cops responded to the intersection of Morris Avenue and the Cross Bronx Expressway in Mount Hope just before 7 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD officers are on the scene of a homicide in the Bronx. Kyle Mazza\/UNF NEWS\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Responding EMS workers pronounced him dead at the scene, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the NYPD Crime Scene Unit and NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner work the scene where a 55-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to the head inside of a vehicle in the area of Morris Avenue and Cross Bronx Expressway in Bronx, New York, Kyle Mazza\/UNF NEWS\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who was not immediately identified by police,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/rideshare-driver-found-shot-head-car-new-york-citys-first-homicide-2026\/18338613\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">was a rideshare driver<\/a>, WABC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police on the scene after a rideshare river was fatally shot in the Bronx. Kyle Mazza\/UNF NEWS\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The city medical examiner\u2019s office will officially determine how he died, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rideshare driver was fatally shot in the head in the Bronx early Thursday \u2013 in what appears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,1027,57,238,9,24,63,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-86649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-homicide","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-murders","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86649","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=86649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}