Add The New York Post on Google Two EMTs were nearly killed helping a teenager who had been shot in the Bronx when their ambulance was struck by gunfire, according to police and fire officials.
Police and FDNY EMS responded to a reported shooting at the Butler Houses on Webster Avenue in Claremont and found an 18-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen around 12:15 a.m.
While at the scene, an FDNY ambulance was shot at and suffered damages to rear and front windshields, according to officials and images from the scene.
Police at the scene where an FDNY ambulance was struck by a bullet, narrowly avoiding an EMT sitting in the passenger seat on Webster Avenue near E170th Street in the Bronx, NY around 12:15 a.m. on May 21, 2026. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post Police investigate the shooting, as a bullet hole is seen in the back of the ambulance. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post Two FDNY EMTs were inside the parked ambulance at the time but were miraculously not struck, ABC 7 reported.
Both were taken to a local hospital with non-serious injuries for evaluation, police and fire officials said.
The 18-year-old shooting victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.
No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
