{"id":160724,"date":"2026-04-08T19:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160724\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:19:06","slug":"arrest-after-shooting-on-scrantons-green-ridge-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/160724\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest after shooting on Scranton&#8217;s Green Ridge Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> police filed criminal charges against a man this week and accused him of shooting a man in the stomach last month outside of an afterhours club in the city&#8217;s north end.<\/p>\n<p>Roderick Jenkins, 23, is facing charges of aggravated assault and other crimes for allegedly shooting a man named Eric Garcia several times March 15 in a club&#8217;s parking lot at the top of Green Ridge Street near North Main Avenue, according to a criminal complaint. Garcia survived.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins is jailed at the Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $200,000 bail and has a preliminary hearing scheduled April 21.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police that the shooter was a man named &#8220;Bando,&#8221; who authorities recognized was the street name for Jenkins, who they said is a member of the Bloods street gang.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that Jenkins shot Garcia during the continuation of a fight that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/south-side-bar-shooting-injures-2-in-scranton-lackawanna-county\/523-389caec4-ae0a-4327-8093-5e24abebb7a5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">erupted the previous day<\/a> at Big Daddy&#8217;s Lounge on Cedar Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Scranton police filed criminal charges against a man this week and accused him of shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-160724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}