A man was fatally shot in the chest and groin on a Bronx street early Thursday, cops said.
The victim was outside a closed store on Grand Concourse near E. Burnside Ave. in Fordham when shot rang out about 2:30 a.m. He was struck once in the chest and once in the groin, police said.
Medics rushed him to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died.
Cops are trying to identify the man, who had no ID on him. He is believed to have been in his 30s.
No arrests have been made. Police were scouring the area for surveillance footage that could help them solve the case.
The shooting comes as the Bronx leads the city in crime reduction so far this year, with an 11% drop in major crime compared to last year by this time.
In 2025, more than a third of the city’s shootings were in the Bronx, three times as many as in Queens and Manhattan, according to NYPD officials. Nearly one million emergency calls also came from the Bronx last year — more than in Queens and equal to Manhattan’s total.
Last month, the NYPD divided the Bronx into two patrol boroughs in an attempt to bring more services to the borough. An additional 200 cops have been sent to the borough as it was divided into Patrol Borough Bronx North and Patrol Borough Bronx South.
“Today is long overdue, and a historic moment for the residents of the Bronx, for the officers doing this work, and for a borough that has carried one of the heaviest public safety burdens anywhere in the city,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said last month.
