Explosion of Bronx gun violence continues with 3 shot, one fatally, inside apartment building: cops

The explosion of gun violence in the Bronx continued Wednesday as three men were shot, one fatally, inside an apartment building – with Mayor Eric Adams promising a “full mobilization plan” to stop the bloodshed. 

A 37-year-old man was shot in the chest, a 62-year-old man struck in the arm and a 59-year-old man blasted in the buttocks when shots erupted during a domestic clash inside a building on College Avenue near East 170th Street in Mount Eden just after 8:30 a.m., authorities and sources said. 

The 37- and 62-year-old victims were taken by EMS to local area hospitals, where the younger man succumbed to his injuries, police said. 

The older man — who was not believed to be the intended target, according to sources — was listed in stable condition, authorities said. 

The 59-year-old victim, who is believed to be homeless, went to the hospital on his own and was listed in stable condition, cops and sources said. 

The suspect, a 44-year-old man, then barricaded himself inside the apartment — where he called News 12 and said he’d shot two people, according to the network.

The gunman was ultimately taken into custody with charges pending, cops and sources said. 

The violence erupted a day after four people were shot – including two men killed and an Amazon driver wounded by a stray bullet – in a rash of broad-daylight violence in the northernmost borough, police said. 

Mayor Eric Adams addressed the rash of violence Wednesday morning during an unrelated press conference in Queens – and vowed that the city is “putting forward a full mobilization plan.”

“In the Bronx, what we’ve been seeing is gangs, young shooters and recidivism,” the mayor said. “In one of these incidents it was an innocent bystander. It’s alarming. These young people are getting more and more involved in gangs. The team is doing a full mobilization plan to address this.” 

In another morning press conference at the West Farms Square-East Tremont Avenue train station, Republican Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said that, despite an overall drop in crime in the Bronx this year, “the Bronx is bleeding, bleeding out” and “starting to get back to the bad old days.”

“I said to the mayor, ‘This is not a perception of crime like he always likes to say, and the police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, ‘This is not an anomaly.’ They always like to cite the stats – crime is down, crime is down. Crime is not down, it’s exploding, violent crime.”

“If you are not going to bring in the National Guard, if you’re not going to bring in state troopers, you’ve got to bring in more police,” he added. “And the Bronx is where blood is flowing, and the gangs are going to continue their retaliation.”

Tuesday’s violence began around 8:10 a.m. when 32-year-old Clay Monsanto was fatally shot in the back outside an apartment building on Anthony Avenue near Mount Hope Place, cops said.

The trouble continued around 1:10 p.m., when 34-year-old Kelvin Mosquea was shot in the chest and killed outside a public housing building on Croes Avenue near Seward Avenue, part of NYCHA’s Sack Wern development, cops said.

The shooting victims included at least one innocent bystander – a 31-year-old Amazon driver who was blasted in the ankle while inside his truck at East Tremont and Bryant avenues in the West Farms neighborhood around 2:35 p.m., cops and sources said.

Two gunmen were shooting at each other when the uninvolved Amazon worker took a stray round, the sources said. 

The perpetrators took off and four shell casings were recovered at the scene, according to the sources. 

The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said. 

About an hour later, around 3:30 p.m., a 26-year-old man was blasted multiple times in the leg on Adams Place near East 182nd Street in Belmont, authorities said. 

He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was also listed in stable condition. 

The mayhem spilled over from a gun violence-riddled weekend in the Bronx – notably including the wild Saturday shooting battle that left a 17-year-old girl, an innocent bystander, in critical condition, killed a 32-year-old man, and injured three others inside Haffen Park, according to authorities.

Meanwhile, the latest NYPD statistics reveal a decline in both murders and shootings so far this year in the Bronx.

As of Sunday, 67 murders had been reported in the Bronx – about a 15 percent decline from the 79 tallied during the same period in 2024. 

And during the same period, 178 shootings with 215 victims were reported in the borough, down from 220 incidents with 281 victims last year, the statistics show.