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Mid-July Shootings Surge in New York and Chicago; Bronx Fare-Dispute Suspect Charged

Charging the Bronx fare-dispute suspect underscores the scope of ongoing mid-July shooting investigations from New York to Chicago.

NYPD investigate the scene where an unidentified 30-year-old male was shot in the abdomen and left arm and a 40-year-old woman was grazed in the lower back in the rear of NYCHA’s Drew Hamilton Houses on Frederick Douglass Blvd. on July 14, 2025. (Kerry Burke/New York Daily News)
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Scene where an unidentified gunman shot a yellow cab driver in a robbery gone wrong on Nelson Ave and w 149 Street in the Bronx on July 14, 2025. (Kerry Burke/New York Daily News)
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Overview

  • Joseph Meeks, 76, was arrested and charged with attempted murder after shooting a 27-year-old taxi driver in the Bronx over a fare dispute; the driver is in stable condition following surgery.
  • Separate daytime attacks in Harlem on July 14 killed Hamid Thomas, 32, and a 42-year-old man, and left a 40-year-old bystander with a graze wound.
  • Chicago police are probing a robbery-linked shooting that critically wounded a 17-year-old near West Ridge and reviewing footage that suggests a reported shooting of a 37-year-old wheelchair user may have been self-inflicted.
  • Late-night gunfire on July 15 injured a 14-year-old on South King Drive and wounded two men, ages 17 and 21, in Fordham Heights; no arrests have been made in those cases.
  • Law enforcement agencies have appealed for public tips and are relying on limited video and witness accounts to identify suspects in at least five unsolved mid-July shootings across both cities.