{"id":1014992,"date":"2026-08-21T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1014992\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:43:21","slug":"man-gunned-down-in-bronx-as-girlfriend-watched-was-innocent-bystander-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1014992\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gunned down in Bronx as girlfriend watched was innocent bystander: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man fatally shot in the head outside a Bronx homeless shelter<\/a> as his girlfriend looked on in horror was an innocent bystander, law enforcement sources said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The startling information was revealed as alleged gunman Iyahni McIntosh, 18, was arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court Thursday for the murder of 39-year-old Klint \u201cJason\u201d French.<\/p>\n

French was shot dead outside Fordham\u2019s Sammon Build Center shelter on Grand Ave. near W. 190th St. about 6:50 p.m. Tuesday,\u00a0 just moments after he stepped outside the building where his girlfriend Katorah Davis lived.<\/p>\n

\"Shell<\/p>\n

Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Shell casings are marked on the sidewalk after Jason French, 39, was fatally shot on Grand Ave. near W. 190th St. in the Bronx on Tuesday night. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

According to the criminal complaint, McIntosh \u201cshot multiple rounds from a .9mm handgun in the direction of Klint French, striking him in the head and causing his death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCops let me know they got the suspect and that he was an innocent bystander,\u201d Davis, 37, told the Daily News Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s just senseless. Senseless. (French) didn\u2019t even know what he did to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish nothing but death upon him,\u201d she said about McIntosh. \u201cThat\u2019s how I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear who McIntosh was aiming at or why when French was fatally shot.<\/p>\n

Davis said that her boyfriend lived in Brooklyn, and traveled to the Bronx just to pick her up. He didn\u2019t know anyone in the area, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quick. Just like that,\u201d Davis said, recalling the shooting. \u201cHe literally just walked out the door, and he was shot. He was a couple of feet away, and that could\u2019ve been anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis was captured on cell phone video, crouching over French\u2019s body, hysterically telling responding cops to stay away from him.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t touch him! Don\u2019t touch him!\u201d Davis pleaded with cops as they tried to inspect the body.<\/p>\n

After firing at least seven shots from his .9mm handgun affixed with a high-capacity magazine, McIntosh fled the scene, prosecutors said at his arraignment. As he ran, the suspect ditched the firearm, which police later recovered. The pistol still had 12 rounds in the magazine, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\"CellphoneCellphone footage obtained by The News shows a woman in pink with the victim screaming “Jesus!” and “Oh my f—— God!” as she sits beside his body, surrounded by police.<\/p>\n

McIntosh was arrested near the scene a short time later, cops said. He is charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon for the killing.<\/p>\n

McIntosh\u2019s mother watched from the gallery in Bronx Criminal Court as her son pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail.<\/p>\n

A witness to the shooting told The News that McIntosh had shot him at point-blank range and kept firing after French fell on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he got close, he shot him twice,\u201d said the witness, who declined to give her name. \u201cWhen he fell down on the sidewalk, he shot him two more times in the head.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Legal Aid attorney for McIntosh declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man fatally shot in the head outside a Bronx homeless shelter as his girlfriend looked on in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1014993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,8471,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1014992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117133797619204761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}