Two men were wounded — one critically — after a gunman opened fire near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx on New Year’s Day.
The bullets struck a 31-year-old man in the groin, ankle and leg, and an unidentified man in the groin at 161st St. and Grand Concourse just before 8 a.m. Thursday, cops said.
A third man was spotted fleeing the scene, and it was not immediately clear if he was also wounded in the barrage.
Medics rushed the two victims to Lincoln Hospital, where the unidentified man was in critical condition, cops said. The 31-year-old victim was expected to survive.
The gunman fled the scene in a black SUV, cops said. A pistol was left at the scene in a sprawling pool of blood seen dripping off the curb.
No arrests have been made.
The violence exploded shortly after firefighters stumbled upon the first murder victim of 2026, 55-year-old Issa Isac, a for-hire driver who was found dead in his crashed SUV in the Bronx Thursday morning with a gunshot wound to the head, cops said.
FDNY firefighters were responding to an unrelated car fire in the area when they spotted Isac’s blue Toyota RAV4 with Taxi & Limousine Commission plates crashed into a parked white sedan on Morris Ave. near the Cross Bronx Expressway service road just before 7 a.m.
The FDNY alerted cops, who determined the 55-year-old victim had been shot at least twice in the head, possibly during a road rage incident.
Members of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
