THE SCENE AT Broadway & 242nd Street the day after a double shooting in Fieldston 1/25/26. Video by Norwood News

A 44-year-old man has died and a 35-year-old man is hospitalized and stable after a double shooting in the Fieldston section of The Bronx, just north of Kingsbridge, on Sunday, Jan. 25.

 

Police said that on Sunday morning at around 2.50 a.m., officers from the 50th Precinct responded to a 911 call regarding an assault at the intersection of West 242nd Street and Broadway, the site of the 242nd Street subway station and roughly adjacent to a section of Van Cortlandt Park where the the Van Cortlandt Park public swimming pool is located.

“Upon arrival, officers observed a 35-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the knee, and a 44-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the chest,” a police spokesperson said. “EMS responded and transported the 44-year-old male to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced deceased and the 35-year-old male to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.”

 

Police said there are no arrests at this time, and the investigation is ongoing. The deceased has been identified as Keon Gill, 44, of Middletown, NY.

 

When Norwood News visited the scene on Sunday, many stores / businesses were closed due to the heavy snowfall and police appeared to have already wrapped up their investigation. We asked the NYPD if the shooting had taken place on the Park side or on the opposite side of Broadway and did not receive a response.

Heavy snowfall began overnight from Saturday into Sunday, and it’s possible this may have hampered the ballistics investigation by police.

 

An employee at a local liquor store said the store had closed around midnight and another smoke shop employee said the store closed at around the same time on Saturday night. Neither worker knew anything about the shooting. The female employee at the smoke shop said, “It’s crazy that this has happened right here! I don’t know anything about it but I’m praying for the family. That’s insane!”

 

Alfredo from local restaurant, Estrellita Poblana, located on the same block said he had closed around 11 p.m. the night before. Asked if he had noticed anyone arguing or getting hostile, he said he had not. He said it was generally a quiet area apart from when he said, occasionally, undomiciled people came across from the park to the restaurant and asked for money or food.

 

We also asked a few other residents of the area if they had any knowledge of the incident and not many did but one resident who lives on the 6th floor of a building overlooking the subway station later told us that she heard the gunshots when she awoke in the middle of the night with her son. “I heard like this bang. I woke up to that. I thought it was a dream,” she said. “And then I heard it two more times so I think it was like three times in total.”

 

The resident explained that the storefronts / roofs / awnings block her view of the street. Asked if she believes the gunshot sounds came from the Park side of Broadway or the side where the stores are located and she said the latter. She added that she believes the shooting took place exactly on the corner of 242nd Street and Broadway, outside a store that sells sports apparel.

 

I went to check on my son because that was scary. My husband heard it as well. I said, ‘What’s that sound?’ and he said, ‘Well, that’s definitely gunshots.'” She said she saw two or three people crossing the street “from 242nd Street towards where the side [where] the train station entrance is.”  Asked if she could describe them, she explained that it was hard to see. “Everyone was so bundled up honestly, it was very cold,” she said.

 

She continued, “Maybe 5-7 minutes later, I heard ambulances coming,” she said. The resident added that it hadn’t started to snow at that stage. Asked if she heard anyone cry out when the shots were fired, she said, “No.” She added that she generally feels safe in the area.

Anyone with information in regard to 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.

 

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