Overview

• A 19-year-old suspect was arrested following a fatal shooting outside a Bronx pizzeria after an argument escalated into violence; police report recovering ballistic evidence and a knife at the scene.
• The shooting victim, a man in his late 30s, was pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital after being shot in the chest during the altercation.
• In a separate incident, NYPD officers critically wounded a 34-year-old man who was holding a knife to his mother’s neck during a tense standoff in a Pelham Bay apartment.
• Officers attempted over 2½ minutes of de-escalation before firing a single shot to free the 61-year-old woman, who was unharmed; the suspect is in critical condition at Jacobi Hospital.
• The NYPD is conducting an internal review of the police shooting and continues to address rising violence in the Bronx, where shooting incidents have increased 35% year-over-year in the 47th Precinct.