{"id":87318,"date":"2026-01-02T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T14:22:09","slug":"driver-shot-to-death-in-the-bronx-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87318\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver shot to death in the Bronx: Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mjcnyfxkqi5sz0v8.jpg\" alt=\"Driver shot and killed in the Bronx\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">BRONX &#8211; \u00a0A 55-year-old driver was shot and killed early Thursday near the Cross Bronx Expressway in the Bronx, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The incident marks one of the first shootings of 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers say they responded to a 911 call around 6:54 a.m. where they found a man with a gunshot wound to the head near Morris Avenue and the Cross Bronx Expressway.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/driver-shot-and-killed-in-the-bronx-1-e1767361579516.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Emergency medical services pronounced the victim dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police identified the driver as Issa Mbolo-Isac, 55, from the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/video-21-e1767361745563.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Police identified the driver as Issa Mbolo-Isac, 55, from the Bronx. <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators said the man was believed to be a livery cab driver, though it was not immediately clear whether he worked for a ride-hailing service such as Uber or Lyft.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No arrests have been made, and police said no motive or suspect information was immediately available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Anyone with information is urged to contact police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/bronx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRONX &#8211; \u00a0A 55-year-old driver was shot and killed early Thursday near the Cross Bronx Expressway in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,850,9,24,12,56,63,129,131,130,618],"class_list":["post-87318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87318","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=87318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}