Norwood: 18-Year-Old Girl Shot on Jerome Avenue near Van Cortlandt Park

By SÍLE MOLONEY

MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER’S Moses campus on East 210th Street in Norwood is seen lit in blue and green as part of a public awareness campaign to highlight the need for organ donation.
Photo courtesy of Montefiore Medical Center

An 18-year-old girl was shot on Jerome Avenue just north of the Norwood section of The Bronx in the early hours of Sunday, May 3, police said.

An NYPD spokesperson said that on May 3 at around 4.46 a.m., officers from the 50th Precinct responded to a 911 call regarding a person who had been shot and who was a walk-in at 111 East 210th Street, the address for Montefiore Medical Center in Norwood.

“Upon arrival, officers were informed that an 18-year-old female sustained a gunshot wound to the left arm in the vicinity of 3751 Jerome Avenue,” a police spokesperson said.

A SOUTHFACING VIEW of Jerome Avenue just north of Norwood between Van Cortlandt Park and Woodlawn Cemetery is seen on Dec. 13, 2025. An 18-year-old woman was shot in the same general area in the early hours of Sunday, May 3, 2026.
Photo by Síle Moloney

The location is on a stretch of Jerome Avenue past Woodlawn subway station, where (if facing north) Woodlawn Cemetery is on the right and access to the Allen Shandler Recreation Area inside Van Cortlandt Park is on the left, close to the entrance to Mosholu Golf Course & Driving Range.

Norwood News asked the NYPD if the woman was shot inside the park or on Jerome Avenue. A spokesperson responded to say that the shooting took place on Jerome Avenue.

VAN CORTLANDT PARK trail, seen here Dec. 13, 2025, is located inside Van Cortlandt Park close to the Jerome Avenue entrance to the park, north of Norwood, in the general vicinity of 3751 Jerome Avenue, where an 18-year-old woman was shot in the early hours of Sunday morning, May 3, 2026.
Photo by Síle Moloney

As reported, human remains were found inside the park close to the same area in December 2025.

Police said the victim was transported by private means to the local hospital in stable condition, that there are no arrests at this time, and that the investigation remains ongoing.

AN 18-YEAR-OLD girl was shot in the arm at the location marked by the red icon, at Jerome Avenue, just north of Norwood in the early hours of Sunday morning, May 3, 2026.
Image courtesy of Google Maps

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 Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.

All calls are strictly confidential.

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