A 41-year-old man was fatally shot aboard a city bus in the Bronx on Monday after an apparent dispute between the man and the shooter, who the man complained was talking on his phone too loud, the authorities said.
The police said they were still searching for the shooter, who ran off the bus.
The shooting occurred on a Bx36 bus near the intersection of East Tremont Avenue and White Plains Road in the Bronxdale neighborhood at about 2:30 p.m.
Two law enforcement officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said that the man had gotten upset that the suspect was yelling into his phone.
The victim, whom officials identified as Jonathan Pettigrew, was shot in the abdomen and pronounced dead at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, the police said.
A man who works at the Family Mexican Deli at the corner where the shooting happened said his store’s surveillance camera captured footage of a man getting out of the front of the bus and sprinting down White Plains Road. “The driver opens the bus, the guy gets out, and he runs,” said the man, who gave only a first name, Ruben, and said he was a cook at the deli.
Deadly violence on city buses is rare, but in May 2025, a man was fatally stabbed on a shuttle bus in Brooklyn. A 13-year-old boy was fatally stabbed on a bus on Staten Island in 2023, and another man died after being stabbed on a bus in the Bronx in 2022.
Andy Newman has reported from the New York region for The Times for more than 30 years.
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