A 39-year-old man was shot in the head and killed outside an apartment building on Grand Avenue near West 190th Street in Fordham on Tuesday evening, and as of this week no arrests have been made in the case. Police say the shooting happened around 6:50 p.m., and the victim died at the scene.
The victim's name was withheld until police could track down his relatives, according to the New York Daily News, which first reported the shooting. The stretch of Grand Avenue where the man was killed falls within the NYPD's 52nd Precinct, headquartered at 3016 Webster Avenue and responsible for patrolling Fordham, Bedford Park, Norwood, Kingsbridge Heights, and University Heights, according to NYC.gov.
This is not the first time violence has struck this specific block. The same stretch of Grand Avenue between West 190th and West 192nd streets saw a fatal stabbing inside a residential building in April 2025, when a 40-year-old man was killed and a suspect living in the building was later charged with second-degree murder, as reported by Norwood News.
A Summer of Head-Wound Shootings in Fordham
Tuesday's killing fits a troubling pattern that has played out across Fordham this summer. On June 23, a 21-year-old man died after being shot in the head outside an apartment building on East 187th Street, with no immediate arrests made in that case either, Hoodline previously reported. Just days ago, a man was shot in the head outside a Jerome Avenue store before the gunmen fled into the subway, and other recent incidents have included a fatal shooting inside a Jerome Avenue building in Fordham Heights and gunfire that rocked East 187th and Webster on a Sunday night.
Those repeated incidents come even as citywide numbers tell a different story. New York City recorded 418 shooting incidents from January 1 through August 16, a 7.9% drop from the 454 shootings logged over the same period in 2025, according to NYPD CompStat data. Murders citywide fell even more sharply, down 24.8% to 161 through August 16 compared with 214 during the same stretch last year, the same NYPD figures show. The first half of 2026 alone produced the lowest mid-year shooting and murder totals in the city's recorded history, according to FOX 5 New York.
Local Crime Bucks the Citywide Trend
Despite those citywide declines, mid-2026 CompStat numbers indicated that major violent crime categories within the 52nd Precinct were trending higher year-to-date compared to 2025, prompting the NYPD to add 20 to 30 officers across West Bronx precincts, Hoodline has previously reported. Police have also leaned on gun-seizure operations in the borough, recovering 251 illegal firearms in the Bronx during the first quarter of 2026 alone as part of a citywide push that pulled more than 1,000 weapons off the streets, according to Police1.
Community-based groups have also been working to blunt the violence in the neighborhoods surrounding Tuesday's shooting. Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence, an initiative run by Good Shepherd Services, deploys outreach workers and conflict interrupters across Fordham, Kingsbridge Heights, and University Heights to mediate street disputes before they turn deadly, per Norwood News. The group follows the Cure Violence model, treating gun violence as a public health issue rather than solely a policing matter.
It remains unclear whether investigators have identified a suspect, a motive, or any connection between Tuesday's shooting and the string of other fatal and non-fatal shootings that have rattled Fordham this summer. Anyone with information can contact NYPD Crime Stoppers, which offers anonymous cash rewards of up to $3,500 for tips leading to an arrest and indictment in violent felony cases, according to NYC.gov.
