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Cross Bronx Expressway shooting kills 21-year-old, injures another, NYPD says
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Brittany Kriegstein
Published Nov 25, 2024
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Published Nov 25, 2024
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A man was killed and a woman was injured early on Sunday morning when someone shot at their car as they drove down the Cross Bronx Expressway, police said.
According to NYPD officials, the two victims were riding in a 2010 Toyota Corolla driven by a 27-year-old man, heading west on the Cross Bronx around 5:45 a.m.
An unknown individual in another car shot at the Toyota, police said, striking 21-year-old Ivan DeJesus Bueno and a 21-year-old woman. The shooter fled the scene and the Toyota driver, who was not hurt, drove the car to Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Washington Heights.
Police officers responded to the hospital, where DeJesus Bueno was pronounced dead and the woman was in stable condition. Police said DeJesus Bueno was a resident of Paterson, New Jersey.
The injured woman was his girlfriend and the couple had gone to a party before the shooting, according to two of her family members who spoke to Gothamist by phone on Monday and requested anonymity because of the ongoing police investigation. They said the couple was returning home to Paterson in the woman’s car and she was still recovering in the hospital as of Monday morning.
Officials said it was not immediately clear what sparked the shooting or whether the Toyota was targeted. Police made no arrests and detectives from multiple precincts were still working as of Monday to piece together what had happened.
Three others were shot and killed in the city over the weekend, including one in the Bronx, one in Queens and one in Brooklyn.
The NYPD said a 25-year-old man was shot and killed around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday near an apartment building on East 233rd Street and White Plains Road in Wakefield. Around 3 a.m. on Sunday, a 35-year-old man was shot to death near a strip of stores on Beach 20th Street in Far Rockaway after a party close by, according to police.
Later on Sunday, around 9:30 p.m., a man was gunned down in front of a building on Albany Avenue and Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, officials said. A 19-year-old man was also shot in that incident, police said, and he was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical but stable condition.
No arrests were immediately made in any of the shootings. The NYPD said it was working to notify the families of all three deceased victims before releasing their identities.
Citywide, shootings are down this year compared to 2023, including in the 47th Precinct, where the 25-year-old was killed on East 233rd Street, and the 79th Precinct, where the man was killed on Albany Avenue. Still, there was a 30% jump in shooting incidents across the city in the last 28-day period reported by the NYPD, compared to the same period last year, according to the department’s CompStat database.
Shootings are slightly up in the 44th Precinct, where DeJesus Bueno was killed, and in the 101st Precinct, where the 35-year-old man was killed on Beach 20th Street, the data shows.
This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and has been updated with additional details.
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Brittany Kriegstein covers all breaking news around New York City, with a focus on crime and gun violence. Got a tip? Email Brittany at [email protected].
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