{"id":13685,"date":"2025-06-25T14:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13685\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:11:11","slug":"teen-17-shot-dead-in-bronx-park-during-water-fight-as-heat-wave-grips-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13685\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen, 17, shot dead in Bronx park during water fight as heat wave grips NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old hanging out in a Bronx park was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/06\/03\/nyc-murders-shootings-drop-lowest-levels-decades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot dead<\/a> as he playfully doused parkgoers with water during Tuesday\u2019s massive heatwave, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman got away, leaving two 9-mm shell casings behind following the shooting inside Starlight Park near the corner of Sheridan Blvd. and E. 173rd St. in Crotona Park East.<\/p>\n<p>The killing took place as the city baked under a horrendous heat wave. Temperatures in the Bronx on Tuesday ranged<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/us\/the-bronx\/10461\/june-weather\/2-334650_1_al\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> between 78 and 101 degrees<\/a>, according to the website accuweather.com.<\/p>\n<p>Victim Darrell Harris was inside the park at about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday when he began throwing water around at other teens, witnesses initially told police.<\/p>\n<p>A moment later, a man dressed in a black colored hoodie, black sweatpants, and a black ski mask charged at Harris with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was shot in the head and right arm, cops said. Medics rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacobi Medical Center,<\/a> but he could not be saved. The teen lived in Longwood, less than a mile from where he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman ran out of the park and was last seen heading north on Sheridan Ave. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Police were scouring the area <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/12\/26\/elite-nypd-squad-uses-surveillance-video-to-track-and-catch-criminals-we-take-a-lot-of-pride-in-our-work\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking for surveillance footage<\/a> that would help them identify the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: June 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old hanging out in a Bronx park was shot dead as he playfully doused parkgoers with water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"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":{"0":"post-13685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-county","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-county","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-nyc-crime","24":"tag-sub-county-region","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114744412321681033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685","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=13685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}