An apparently gang-related shooting battle broke out during a basketball tournament at a Bronx park \u2014 leaving one dead, four injured and four more arrested, according to sources and the NYPD.\u2019<\/p>\n
Bullets flew on Burke Avenue and Wickham Avenue\u00a0near Haffen Park\u00a0just before 5:30 p.m. Saturday with police arriving to find one 32-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the chest and a 30-year-old man shot in the back, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n
Both were transported to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n
An apparent shooting between gang members left at least one person dead in the Bronx on August 23, 2025. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old was pronounced dead at Jacobi while the\u00a030-year-old\u00a0remains in critical condition, according to cops.<\/p>\n
In the same time frame, three other people transported themselves to area hospitals with gunshot wounds, cops said.<\/p>\n
A 17-year-old female walked to Jacobi Hospital with a gunshot wound to the face.\u00a0She was in critical condition as of Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
At that same hospital, a 29-year-old checked in with a gunshot wound to the back.<\/p>\n
A 42-year-old brought himself to Montefiore Nyack Hospital with a graze wound to the right arm.<\/p>\n
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Those two victims are in stable condition, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Four people have been taken in custody in connection to the violence and multiple firearms have been recovered, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n
Much of the shooting occurred on Burke Avenue and Gunther Avenue near Haffen Park where a large crowd watched a basketball tournament at the time that shots rang out, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Four other people were injured as bullets flew in the Bronx. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n
A 17-year-old female is in critical condition after suffering a gunshot wound to the face. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post<\/p>\n
Photos from the scene show one firearm underneath a car on Burke Avenue hours after the shooting.<\/p>\n
Multiple firearms were recovered from both the scene and during arrests, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
An investigation is ongoing, though sources said the incident was gang related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An apparently gang-related shooting battle broke out during a basketball tournament at a Bronx park \u2014 leaving one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,3677,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-171027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115082263427380469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171027","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=171027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}