The NYPD said an 11-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was shot in the Belmont section of The Bronx on Saturday night, Oct. 26.

 

A police spokesperson said they were notified at 8.28 p.m. for reports of an 11-year-old boy who had been shot in the left leg at East 188th and Park Avenue.

“He was transported to Jacobi Hospital and is stable,” the police spokesperson said. “There’s no arrests and it’s still being investigated,” he added.

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The site of the shooting, a fairly deserted and poorly lit area, which was also littered with trash with very few stores or activity, is located by a bridge under which the MetroNorth train runs.

A block north of the site of shooting is Fordham Plaza, where a Halloween Bronx Night Market had been in full swing earlier that evening, and at which many young people and children were present.

 

Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson was also in attendance at the market, which was due to wrap up at 7 p.m.

One block to the west of the shooting location is Boca nite club on the corner of Webster Avenue and East 188th Street. Later that night, we asked a few residents of the area if they had seen what had happened.

 

One young man declined to talk. Another older man said he arrived after the shooting and just saw the police investigating outside the Bronx Church of God Seventh Day, located on the corner of East 188th and Park Avenue.

A young couple living in a tent nearby on East 188th Street said they arrived at the site after the shooting and did not know what had happened.

 

Broken glass akin to a shattered car window was seen scattered on the sidewalk close to the church. However, the older male resident said the glass had been there prior to the shooting.

 

Residents are encouraged to always call 911 if they witness someone in distress or danger and authorities add that there are no repercussions for alerting the emergency services.

On Monday, Oct.21, police said a 15-year-old girl had also been shot in the Belmont neighborhood, at the intersection of East 183rd Street and Crotona Avenue. They said she was shot in the lower back but is expected to survive.

 

Eyewitness News shared this report on that shooting, also reported by News 12 The Bronx and other media outlets.

On Wednesday, Oct. 23, one minor injury was reported after a fire broke out a block south from the scene of this latest shooting at 416 East 187th Street, by Webster Avenue and Park Avenue West in Belmont.

 

As also reported, the FDNY said one person died and three were injured in an apartment fire caused by a lithium-ion battery on Beaumont Avenue near Grote Street, also in Belmont on Thursday, Oct. 24.

Anyone with information regarding this shooting 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/, or on X @NYPDTips.

All calls are strictly confidential.