Overview
- Officers from the 42nd Precinct found 34-year-old Javan Jones with a single gunshot wound in front of an apartment at 360 E. 161 St.; EMS transported him to NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln where he was pronounced dead.
- Police have made no arrests and describe the case as an active homicide investigation led by the NYPD’s 42nd Precinct.
- The killing followed an earlier Bronx shooting that left a 29-year-old man shot in front of an apartment building in Parkchester, highlighting two deadly incidents in the borough the same day.
- Authorities are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers, submit tips at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or message @NYPDTips, and they say all tips will be kept confidential.
- City data through mid-May show 32 murders in the Bronx so far this year versus 37 in the same period last year and an overall drop of just over 11% in major crime, a statistic that frames local concerns about recent shootings.