POLICE INVESTIGATE IN the early hours of Tuesday, March 17, 2026, a shooting that took place on Monday, March 16, 2026 outside 167 West 231st Street by Albany Crescent in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx. Video by Síle Moloney

A 30-year-old man has been hospitalized and remains in critical condition following a shooting in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx, police said.

 

A police spokesperson told Norwood News that on Monday, March 16, at around 9.12 p.m., police received a 911 call for a report of a man who had been shot in the head at 167 West 231st Street in the confines of the 50th Precinct.

 

“Upon arrival, officers were informed a 30-year-old male sustained a gunshot wound to his head,” the police spokesperson said. “He was transported by private means to New York Presbyterian Allen Hospital [in Manhattan, across the bridge from Marble Hill] in critical condition. There are no arrests and it’s an ongoing investigation.”

The address in question is a multistory residential building. However, police cones marking the shell casings recovered following the shooting were seen in front of 169 West 231st Street and Albany Crescent, which is the location of a driving school.

 

Police had cordoned off a section of West 231st Street between Bailey Avenue and Albany Crescent while they carried out their investigation which included examining the windows of the Bronx Public House, located at 170 West 231st Street, opposite where the shell casings were located.

 

Given the weather was quite rainy and windy on the night in question, and given that the area was cordoned off by some distance, it wasn’t immediately clear if one of the windows of the bar had been shattered by a bullet or if it was just raindrops on the window pane.

Meanwhile, the Temple of Enlightenment is located about 100 feet from the crime scene close to the Bronx Public House, which is located on the corner of West 231st Street and Albany Crescent.

 

A driver in a passing car asked what had happened. When Norwood News told him of the shooting and asked if he wanted to comment, he said it was a scary thing but did not wish to comment further.

A group of men walking up West 231st Street from Broadway towards the crime scene and, separately, a local business owner of one of the few businesses which were still open in the early hours of March 17 as the investigation continued, also declined to comment.

 

Norwood News asked a young man leaving a laundromat on West 231st Street between Broadway and Albany Crescent near the UPS store if he had seen what had happened and he said he had not. When told of the shooting, he said it was “crazy.”

 

Asked if he felt unsafe in the area generally, he said, “It’s the Bronx, and we live in a kind of impoverished area so I don’t want to say it comes as a complete surprise.” Asked if there was ever any trouble around the Bronx Public House, he said he didn’t believe so.

 

The latest shooting comes just over a month after 16-year-old athlete and student, Christopher Redding, was fatally shot at West 238th Street and Broadway, also in Kingsbridge, on Feb. 11, as reported.

 

Two other teenagers were also shot during the same incident but survived. Four suspects are sought in connection to the incident and Christopher’s mother has called on the culprits to turn themselves in. Police said the shooting was being investigated in the context of a possible “gang nexus.”

 

The latest shooting statistics for the 50th Precinct, which covers the Bronx neighborhoods of Kingsbridge, Fieldston, Riverdale, Marble Hill, and Spuyten Duyvil, are attached.

 

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.

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