A 30-year-old man is dead following an apparent double shooting incident in the Bedford Park section of The Bronx, police said. A 31-year-old woman was also shot, but survived.

 

An NYPD spokesperson said officers responded to a 911 call at 2830 Marion Avenue at 2.25 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13 regarding a person who had been shot. Upon arrival, they discovered a 31-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the right foot and a 30-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head.

 

The spokesperson said the woman was transported, in stable condition, to St. Barnabas hospital and the man, 30, was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

Asked if the shooting stemmed from a domestic violence incident, a police spokesperson told Norwood News, “Still trying to determine the particulars at this time.” The investigation remained ongoing.

 

Norwood News spoke to some residents of the building which overlooks the home of the victims on Monday, Aug. 15. One male resident, whose name we are not disclosing, was asked if he had seen the incident and he said, “no.”

 

He said another resident told him he looked out of his upstairs window on the morning of the shooting after he heard the second shot but couldn’t see very well. The same resident went on to share what he said he heard about the incident from his neighbors. “He [the male victim] ended up… he was being mean to her, and then he [allegedly] shot her in the foot, and then he [allegedly] shot himself in the head,” he said. “They both went out in the ambulance but he [the victim] didn’t make it. But thank God he didn’t hurt the girl [female victim], fatally.”

 

The resident added that the female victim used to have a baby carriage with her and he said he reckoned her child was under 3 years old.  Another male resident we spoke to, who preferred not to give his name, said his neighbors had told him there were two shots and that after the second shot, the female victim came outside screaming in Spanish, “Help, help, help, help help, my husband just committed suicide.” He added that a neighbor said that the female victim had thought that someone had called the police, and that they were coming.

 

Asked if he knew if there had been a history of domestic violence between the couple, the 2nd male resident said, “They actually just moved here.” Asked if they had children, the resident said, “Yeah, I think they had a kid, I think they had a baby.” The same resident said he didn’t really know the couple but used to just see them always coming in and out of their car.

 

The first resident then said the couple lived on one level up from the street level. Based on what his neighbors told him, and pointing in the direction of the house where the couple lived, he said, “But the skirmish was on the garbage pails on this property. It ended up over there, in that little alleyway, where the garbage is,” he said., later adding, “Maybe she was trying to get away from him?”

The resident added, “I think he was a bit of a trouble-maker. I mean what the [expletive] was he doing [at 2 in the morning], you know?” Referring to the neighborhood atmosphere in general, the resident then said, “Most people are pretty cool. There’s really no trouble, but I do remember about a week or two ago, I saw maybe like six or eight or ten people coming and going [from the victim’s house]. I saw the baby carriage, but I never saw the woman’s face or any of that. I just thought maybe they were going to some park somewhere or whatever. They are pretty new.”

 

When we mentioned that the couple’s home seemed like a very nice house and potentially an expensive one, the first male resident said, “Yeah, most of those go for like $1,000,000. I guess they’re all probably pre-World War I.” Asked if he knew if the couple owned the whole building, he did not reply, instead saying, “There’s one house there but it’s huge, and then there’s another house next to that and again, it’s huge. I think they’ve been there since the 1800s. I think they’re carriage houses.”

 

Another female resident we spoke to, who also lived in the same next-door building to the victims’ home, and who preferred not to share her name, corroborated what the two male residents had said about the woman coming out of the house, screaming “Help me, Help me. My husband shot himself.”

 

The female resident continued, “It was so loud [the gunshot] that people, people all over the neighborhood, this neighborhood, some people were screaming at her but we couldn’t hear, because it was far away.”

 

Asked what time that was, she said it was almost 2 a.m., and added that the woman was screaming for about 4 minutes before the police and ambulance arrived. “As soon as I heard the screams, I went to the window and I saw her,” the female resident said. “I saw her and her baby.” Asked if she was holding the child, she said, “Yeah.” We asked the resident if she could see the woman’s foot bleeding, she said, “We [she and her family member] couldn’t really see.”

 

Asked if she saw the male victim, she said, “No, we didn’t.” We then asked how she felt about the incident. The resident said, “I mean I couldn’t believe it. I’ve lived here for like 15 years but I’ve never seen anything like that in this neighborhood.” Asked if she knew the couple, she said, “No, because I rarely go outside, and they’re also….like I just don’t see them.”

 

She added regarding the time, “I could tell it happened at one something and the police were still there at two. They hadn’t brought up the ambulance thing, I mean to the bed to take him [the male victim] so I just knew that he died.”

 

The female resident continued, “I heard a shot, like a loud noise, but I didn’t know if it was a gunshot or not.” She said she went to ask a family member and the family member said it didn’t think sound like a gunshot either. She said 20 to 30 minutes later, the female victim came out of the house, screaming.” The resident added, “I heard her say that.. she said that he was going to kill her, like while she was holding the baby.”

 

The same neighbor added that she heard the female victim say the only reason he didn’t kill her was because of the baby. Asked if she had heard the couple argue in the past, the neighbor said, “no.”

 

When contacted again on Monday, Aug. 15, for any updates on the case, an NYPD spokesperson said there were none, and said neither could the agency corroborate the nature of the relationship between the couple.

 

*David Greene contributed to this story.