{"id":93259,"date":"2026-01-08T02:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93259\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:52:25","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/93259\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police identified the man wanted for killing a Bronx father of four and Uber driver on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Ehinel Troncoso, 24, is accused of fatally shooting Isa Mbolo Isaac, 55, in the head during a road rage incident just before 7 a.m. near Morris Avenue and Cross Bronx Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>News 12 spoke exclusively with Isaac\u2019s brother, Mounirou Zorome, who says he\u2019s still struggling to understand how a normal night ended in tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just don&#8217;t have words to express the anger, the frustration this incident created, you know. He did nothing to deserve this,&#8221; Zorome said. &#8220;He was just working in the New Year&#8217;s and just trying to provide for his family and his life is just gone just like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lengthy search for the man responsible involved multiple press conferences held by the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/bronx-livery-driver-fatally-shot-in-the-head-in-tremont-on-new-years-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">During a press conference Jan. 2<\/a>, a source, who says he was present during the attack, came forward to identify the suspected shooter as a Bronx resident in his early 20s who immigrated from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was nearby\u2026 we were able to identify the person by the pictures,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>They said the suspect may be attempting to flee the country and return to the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>NYSFTD spokesperson Fernando Mateo translated these claims.<\/p>\n<p>Tune into News 12 Friday morning for the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police identified the man wanted for killing a Bronx father of four and Uber driver on New Year&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,68,786,31095,9,24,63,103,129,131,130,6480],"class_list":["post-93259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-exclusive","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-new-years-day","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93259","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=93259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}