A New York father of seven was fatally shot on a Bronx bus after asking a teen to quiet down while heading to pick up his youngest daughter from daycare.
The 41-year-old was on the Bx36 near East Tremont Avenue and White Plains Road when the fatal confrontation began.
A loud phone call allegedly set off the altercation shortly before 2:30 p.m.
The teen then allegedly drew a handgun, firing a round that struck Jonathan Pettigrew in the abdomen.
Pettigrew was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he later died.
The suspect ran from the scene immediately after the shooting and had not been apprehended.
Authorities said the suspect was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, while police sources said he ran south along White Plains Road in Parkchester carrying a black handgun.
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A worker at Family Mexican Deli told Gothamist that surveillance footage from the business appeared to show the shooter heading south after the attack.
For Pettigrew’s family, the randomness of the killing was almost impossible to process.
“ Right now it’s just hard for me to believe what’s going on because I’m really, like, in a state of shock,” his brother Avery Pettigrew commented to the outlet.
Avery said his brother struggled with anxiety and was bothered by loud noise.
“ He got this anxiety where he, like me, we can’t be around a lot of noise,” Pettigrew said.
“I guess the person that was on the phone was being very disrespectful and loud, and it was bothering him.”
The 41-year-old worked as a caterer and helped care for seven children.
His aunts later told The New York Times that he was headed to pick up his 7-year-old daughter from daycare when he was shot.
“This is his routine: He drops her off at school, he goes to work, he gets off work, he picks her up,” his aunt, Sandra Ferguson, told the paper. “I just can’t believe this.”
Sabrina Vereen, another aunt, remembered his devotion to the girl. “He took real good care of that little girl,” she said.
The hardest conversation, Avery said, may come later.
“She’s too young to understand,” Avery said. “When she gets the mind to start asking for her father, we’re going to have to try to make her understand. She’s really her daddy’s little girl.”
In Houston, a stolen-truck search ended with 56-year-old Louis Erebia dead and another man wounded.
The case began at a gas station near Tidwell Road and John Ralston Road, where Erebia’s son was allegedly carjacked at gunpoint around 2 p.m.
The son called his father for help finding the truck, and a 24-year-old friend also joined the search.
GPS data led Erebia to the truck near Airline Drive and the North Loop.
When they found the stolen truck at the intersection, Erebia and the younger man crashed into it, then chased the alleged car thieves on foot.
The confrontation turned deadly when gunfire erupted. Erebia was shot and later died at a local hospital, according to KHOU 11.
The 24-year-old was struck in the back but is expected to survive.
Authorities said the suspects, described as a black man and a black woman, fled afterward in a dark-colored pickup.
The male suspect was later identified as 37-year-old London Hogan Sr., according to ABC 13.
Hogan had already been on law enforcement’s radar before the fatal shooting.
Court records cited by ABC 13 show he pleaded guilty in March 2024 to strangling his girlfriend and received five years of probation.
In January 2025, he was arrested on drug possession charges after allegedly planning to smuggle drugs into a correctional facility.
Despite violating probation, records show it was not revoked, and Hogan was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
He’s on the hook for murder due to Erebia’s death, as well as carjacking and shooting the 24-year-old friend.
Detective Sergio Torres later outlined the shooting for local reporters.
“The male suspect had produced a firearm, discharging the firearm, and the victims sustained a gunshot wound,” Torres told Click 2 Houston.
The sheriff’s office homicide division is leading the investigation, which remains active.
In Alabama, a father was fatally shot in front of his wife after a confrontation at a Walmart shopping center spilled into a nearby restaurant parking lot.
The Alabama case centered on 46-year-old Stephen Justus “Fro” Morrow, who was shot at the Sumiton shopping center shortly before 9 p.m.
Doctors at the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham later pronounced him dead.
Before he died, Morrow reportedly had a final message for his wife.
“Kayla, I’m dying and I love you,” he reportedly told her.
The next day, Kayla Morrow described the horror of watching the shooting unfold.
“I don’t know how to feel, what to think, anything in general,” she shared on Facebook. “I’m completely numb. I’ve been awake for almost 40 hours.”
In the same post, she said her husband’s death was “the hardest thing I have ever had to witness.”
“Every time I close my eyes, all I can see is the scene happening,” she wrote.
Authorities later identified 18-year-old Timothy Braden Crawford as the murder suspect.
Authorities have not said whether Morrow and Crawford knew each other before the encounter.
A worker at Las Reyes 2, Tristan Pedraza, described the moment to ABC 33/40.
He said his manager’s wife had returned to retrieve her phone when she witnessed the shooting.
“Our manager’s wife had left her phone so they were backing in to unlock the door to try to get her phone,” Pedraza recalled.
“When she opened her door, she heard two gunshots and saw the man collapse on the other side of the parking lot.”
During Crawford’s first court appearance Tuesday, investigators told the court that the shooting followed an earlier confrontation inside the store.
They testified that Crawford waited outside for Morrow after the initial encounter, then allegedly triggered a short vehicle chase.
Court documents state the chase concluded in the restaurant parking lot.
Investigators allege Morrow broke the passenger-side window and either reached into or moved toward Crawford’s vehicle before the shooting occurred.
Walker County District Judge Henry Prentiss Allred ruled Crawford was a danger to the community but still eligible for bond.
The judge set cash-only bail at $250,000 with strict conditions if Crawford is released.
