A teenager was fatally stabbed in the Bronx on Wednesday afternoon, according to police.
Officers responded to the front of a building on Beach Avenue in Soundview just after 4:30 p.m. and discovered Jonathan Melo, 17, with a stab wound to his back.
Melo was rushed to NYC Health and Hospitals/Jacobi in critical condition, where he was later pronounced dead, cops said.
The scene where Jonathan Melo, 17, was fatally stabbed at 1337 Beach Avenue in the Bronx around 4:30 p.m. on April 29, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post A police officer standing at the door of 1337 Beach Avenue in the Bronx. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post No arrests have been made, and it is unclear what sparked the attack.
