UPDATE Belmont: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested in Nonfatal Shooting of Man & Woman on Webster

By SÍLE MOLONEY

POLICE OFFICERS FROM the 48th Precinct are seen at the cordoned off scene of an as yet nonfatal shooting of two people at 2382 Webster Avenue in the Belmont section of The Bronx on Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, 2025. They remain hospitalized.
Photo by Síle Moloney

Police said they have made an arrest after two people, a man and woman, were shot on Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, in the Belmont section of The Bronx. Both were hospitalized. On Thursday, Oct. 2, they had released a photo of the suspect (attached below) and had been asking for the public’s help identifying the person.

An NYPD spokesperson told Norwood News police responded to a 911 call at 5.58 p.m. on Sept. 30 of multiple people shot in front of 2382 Webster Avenue, a residential building located next to a corner deli on East 187th Street, around four blocks south of from Fordham Plaza and Fordham University.

SEVERAL CARS PARKED adjacent to the scene of a nonfatal shooting at 2382 Webster Avenue in the Belmont section of The Bronx are seen cordoned off on Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, 2025. Two people were shot and remain hospitalized.
Photo by Síle Moloney

“Upon arrival, officers observed a 36-year-old male with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso (later clarified to hip and leg) and a 35-year-old woman with a graze wound to the leg (ankle),” the spokesperson said. “EMS responded and transported the victims to St. Barnabas in stable condition.”

She said there were no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing. We asked if there were any suspects and a male, wearing all black, and he fled the scene on foot.

Norwood News spoke to some passing residents but they had not witnessed the shooting. Speaking in Spanish, a local deli worker said he heard about 12 shots go off but said it was busy and noisy in the deli at the time and he wasn’t sure.

THE NYPD IS asking for the public’s help identifying this person who they say is sought in connection to a shooting of a man and woman that occurred on Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, 2025, on Webster Avenue and East 187th Street in the Belmont section of The Bronx.
Photo courtesy of the NYPD

He said he and his colleagues crouched down behind the counter when they heard the shots as they were initially fearful they were going to be attacked.

He said they later looked outside the store and saw one man who they said looked not young but not old lying on the sidewalk injured.

MEMBERS OF THE NYPD’s evidence collection unit are seen transferring evidence into a police vehicle as they depart the scene of a nonfatal shooting at 2382 Webster Avenue in the Belmont section of The Bronx on Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, 2025. Two people were shot and remain hospitalized.
Photo by Síle Moloney

The employee said there was a subsequent flurry of activity thereafter with police and emergency services arriving on the scene. He said he did not see the shooter.

Police were seen both at the crime scene and also at the top of the steps close to Elm Place on the opposite side of Webster Avenue.

AN NYPD vehicle is seen parked near 2382 Webster Avenue in the Belmont section of The Bronx on Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, 2025, after two people were shot at the location and remain hospitalized.
Photo by Síle Moloney

A mobile NYPD unit is sometimes seen stationed at that location which is close to a school, seen in the attached photo in the background, but did not appear to be there on Tuesday night.

On Wednesday, Oct. 8, pursuant to an ongoing investigation, police said an unnamed 14-year-old male was arrested in connection with the shooting on Oct. 6 at 6.30 p.m. in the confines of the 48th Precinct which covers Belmont, East Tremont, West Farms, Fordham University’s Bronx campus, and includes Arthur Avenue, the Cross Bronx Expressway and Crotona Park.

POLICE ARE SEEN close to Elm Place and East 187th Street in the Belmont section of the Bronx on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, following the nonfatal shooting of two people on nearby Webster Avenue earlier that evening.
Photo by Síle Moloney

The 14-year-old has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, and two counts of reckless endangerment. He is presumed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law.

Elsewhere, posts on social media regarding a reported shooting of five people at McDonalds, located at 5765 Broadway in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx, also on Tuesday evening turned out to be unfounded according to the NYPD.

AN AMBULANCE WITH flashing lights is seen outside McDonalds at 5765 Broadway in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx on Tuesday evening, Sept. 30, 2025, but reports of the shooting of five people turned out to be unfounded, police said.
Photo courtesy of the Citizens App

An ambulance was seen later on Tuesday night outside an urgent care office located close to McDonalds but on the opposite side of Broadway.

When asked, an EMS employee confirmed to Norwood News they were not there responding to any shooting.

AN AMBULANCE IS seen outside an urgent care clinic opposite McDonalds at 5765 Broadway in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx on Tuesday night, Sept. 30, 2025, an hour or so after unconfirmed, and ultimately unfounded, reports of a shooting involving five people at McDonalds were posted to social media.
Photo by Síle Moloney

Major crime statistics for the 48th Precinct which covers Belmont, among other Bronx neighborhoods, are attached below.

MAJOR CRIME STATISTICS for the 48th Precinct for the 28-day period ending Sept. 28, 2025, compared to the same timeframe last year (left), and year-to-date major crime statistics for the 48th Precinct as of Sept. 28, 2025, compared to last year (right). This precinct covers some or all of Belmont, East Tremont, and West Farms. Fordham University’s Bronx campus is nestled in the precinct’s northern corner, Arthur Avenue runs down the center, and the Cross Bronx Expressway and Crotona Park form the southern border.
Source: NYPD

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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