Police said they have arrested  a 46-year-old man following the fatal, morning shooting of a 26-year-old man in the Kingsbridge Heights section of The Bronx on Feb. 8.

 

As reported, an NYPD spokesperson told Norwood News the incident occurred at around 10.56 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8, outside 131 West Kingsbridge Road.

Police said that after responding to a 911 call, upon arrival, officers from the 50th Precinct discovered the man lying on the street with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso.

 

They said he was transported by EMS to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased. There were no initial arrests and the investigation remained ongoing.

When asked, police confirmed the victim was shot on the street outside 131 West Kingsbridge Road. News 12 The Bronx said a witness reported seeing him try to run a few doors down the block from the location before falling in front of Caridad restaurant.

 

One female employee of a local store said a resident reported seeing emergency staff attempting to carry out CPR on the victim as they lifted him into a waiting ambulance.

Police said on Feb. 9 the deceased was identified as Hasan Richburg, 26, of Heath Avenue in Fordham Manor. On Feb. 14, police said that pursuant to an ongoing investigation, Deshaun Coleman, 46, of Sedgwick Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, was arrested earlier that morning at 8.15 a.m. in the confines of the 50th Precinct. They said he was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

 

Norwood News spoke to a number of employees working in local businesses at the location, which is a short distance away from a local primary school and across the street from the James J. Peters Veterans Medical Center, located in Fordham Manor, but all said they were not working at the time the incident unfolded.

The shooting may have been the first for 2024 for the 50th Precinct, where the shooting occurred. Data from the NYPD shows that as of Feb. 4, there were zero year-to-date shootings in 50th Precinct, the same as last year. Data from Feb. 4 to Feb. 8 is not yet available.

 

The 50th Precinct broadly covers the neighborhoods of Kingsbridge, Marble Hill, Fieldston, Riverdale and Spuyten Duyvil, as well as Van Cortlandt Park, one of the largest parks in New York City. As reported (Page 7), Captain Ryan J. Pierce was recently appointed as the new commanding officer of the Precinct.

According to NYPD records, Pierce became a police officer in 2006, was promoted to sergeant in 2012, lieutenant in 2016, and captain in 2020. Over the course of his career, he has made a total of 82 arrests, 71 for misdemeanors and 11 for felonies. Pierce replaced
Capt. Filastine Srour, who is now assigned to Patrol Borough Bronx.

 

Unfortunately, that overview for the 50th Precinct is not reflective of the overall situation when it comes to shootings in the borough, as a whole. Year to date, there have been 24 shootings in The Bronx as of Feb. 4, according to NYPD data, up from 22 during the same period last year.

Meanwhile, 29 victims were shot year-to-date across the borough compared to 27 during the same period last year.

 

For the last 28-day period, as of Feb. 4, there were 20 shootings compared to 18 during the same period last year. Meanwhile, during the same period, as of Feb. 4, there were 24 victims were shot, compared to 23 during the same period last year.

According to the NYPD, as of Feb. 8 and since Jan. 1, 2022, 14,218 guns have been removed from New York City streets, 628 of those since Jan. 1, 2024.

 

Read our follow-up story on this incident here.

 

A person charged with a crime is deemed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law.

Anyone with information regarding 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 Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on Twitter @NYPDTips.

 

All calls are strictly confidential.

 

*David Greene and Miriam Quiñones contributed to this story.