{"id":543476,"date":"2026-01-26T06:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/543476\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:15:17","slug":"dad-shot-dead-after-celebrating-his-birthday-in-nyc-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/543476\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad shot dead after celebrating his birthday in NYC: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dad who was shot dead after a night out in the Bronx celebrating his 43rd birthday, according to cops and a report.<\/p>\n<p>Keon Gill, 43, was fatally shot in the chest and an unidentified 35-year-old man was shot in the knee after the festivities at West 242nd Street and Broadway in Riverdale at about 2:50 a.m., cops and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/25\/man-44-shot-to-death-second-man-wounded-in-bronx-street-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a report in the Daily News said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A relative told the Daily News it was an attempted robbery, describing Gill as a \u201cdedicated father\u201d and a husband. Gill lives in Middletown, New York, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38285316\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/062924-Shots-fired-at-NYPD-cops-14.jpg\" alt=\"Police car with flashing lights behind yellow crime scene tape that reads &quot;CRIME SCENE - DO NOT CROSS&quot;.\" class=\"wp-image-38285316\"  \/>An early morning shooting in the Bronx on Sunday wounded one man and took the life of another from Orange County, police said.  Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>The two victims were rushed by EMS to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Gill was pronounced dead. The unidentified 35-year-old he was with is in stable condition, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, and the investigation is still ongoing, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dad who was shot dead after a night out in the Bronx celebrating his 43rd birthday, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":543477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,3677,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-543476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nypd","18":"tag-shootings","19":"tag-the-bronx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115959937550469529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543476","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=543476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}