Two men in their 20s are dead after a pair of unrelated Bronx shootings Saturday night.
The first of the two fatal shootings occurred at around 4:40 p.m., when police responded to a report of a man shot near New York City Housing Authority’s Eastchester Gardens in the Laconia section of the East Bronx. Officers arrived to find 22-year-old Miguel Molina, an Eastchester Gardens resident, with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Paramedics responded and transported Molina to NYC Health & Hospitals/Jacobi, where he was pronounced dead.
Hours later, at around 11:31 p.m., police responded to a call of a man shot in front of 994 East 180th Street, in Crotona. There, officers found 25-year-old Isiah Johnson with a gunshot wound to the torso.
Paramedics transported Johnson, who lived not far from the scene of the shooting, to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Late Sunday, police cuffed 18-year-old Christopher Bradley of the Bronx in connection to Molina’s killing. He is charged with murder, manslaughter and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
There were still no arrests in Johnson’s killing as of Monday morning, and both shootings remain under investigation.
Despite Saturday’s seemingly back-to-back shootings, gunfire in the Bronx is down borough-wide, according to Police Department data. In both the 48th Precinct, where Johnson was killed, and the 49th Precinct, where Molina was killed, reported shootings are down at least 50% year-to-date as of June 11 (when the most recent data is available).
Meanwhile, across the Bronx, reported shootings are down nearly 37%, with 121 reported shootings year-to-date, compared to 190 during the same time last year.
