Instagram

Gunman Sought in Daylight Gun Hill Road Shooting

 

Gun
Photo by Jay Rembert on Unsplash

Police are looking for the gunman who opened fire and shot a man in broad daylight on a busy Norwood street.

 

According to police spokeswoman, Detective Annette Shelton, the incident took place in front of the Dunkin’ Donuts, located at 47 East Gun Hill Road at Dekalb Avenue, at 2:47 p.m. on Saturday, January 22.

 

Shelton said of the incident, “A 21-year-old male was shot in the back and was transported to Montefiore Hospital by private means,” and the unidentified victim remains in stable condition.

 

Shelton could not provide a description of the suspect. She added that there had been no arrests, and the investigation remains “ongoing.”

 

A post by a Citizen’s App user referred to two male suspects who had been involved in a shooting on the same date. The post referred to one suspect who had fled northbound on Dekalb, and another who had jumped into a blue Honda Accord with TLC plates, and then traveled eastbound on East Gun Hill Road.

 

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @dcNYPDTips.

 

All calls are strictly confidential.

 

 

Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.

Like this story? Leave your comments below.