{"id":734525,"date":"2026-04-17T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/734525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:40:14","slug":"senior-man-fatally-shot-near-his-home-in-the-bronx-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/734525\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior man fatally shot near his home in the Bronx: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1889004791.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Red and blue flashing police lights at a crime scene.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Senior man fatally shot near his home in the Bronx: NYPD 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD is investigating a shooting that left a man dead in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Photo via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD is investigating the death of a man who was found shot near his home in the Bronx on Thursday night.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police, at 10:25 p.m. on April 16, cops responded to a 911 call regarding an assault at 205 Alexander Ave. Upon their arrival, officers from the 40th Precinct found the victim, 78-year-old Edgar Spence, with a gunshot wound to his torso.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed Spence, who lived less than a block away from the crime scene, to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Lincoln where he was pronounced dead.\n<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made at this time. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is investigating a shooting that left a man dead in the Bronx. Photo via Getty Images&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[120678,303496,5229,97391,303497,4221,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,101,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-734525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-40th-precinct","tag-alexander-avenue","tag-america","tag-dcpi","tag-edgar-spence","tag-homicide","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-shooting","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116420334798901235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734525","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=734525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}