Posted on 06/11/2026 9:54:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
A father of seven is dead after a dispute with a reported teenager over a loud cellphone conversation on a New York City bus turned deadly this week.
According to CBS News, 41-year-old Jonathan Pettigrew was fatally shot about 2:30 p.m. Monday after confronting another passenger who was speaking loudly on a phone aboard a bus in the Bronx.
At some point during what was an exchange of words, the other passenger — described by the New York Post as being between 13 and 16 years old — opened fire on Pettigrew.
Surveillance video showed passengers rushing off the bus before the victim collapsed on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the stomach.
Pettigrew was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to WABC-TV.
The NYPD told CBS News that the complaint over the volume of the phone call was what ultimately led to the shooting.
Pettigrew had apparently asked the suspect to stop yelling into his phone before the situation escalated into a murder in broad daylight.
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Let me guess.
Carmelo 2.0?
My family left NYC in 1964. My father an NYPD cop saw the writing on the wall a bugged out. We never looked back
Black lives matter, except to other blacks..............
You mean the word “white” wasn’t capitalized just for the hell of it?
I’d someone is having a speakerphone conversation around me, I join in. That shuts it down really fast. If they object to my joining in the conversation, I just tell them that since it’s on speaker, it’s open for anyone to contribute.
A 13 year old with a gun? I thought New York had very strict gun laws. Maybe passing even stricter gun laws will make it better.
Yelling into the phone is a typical ghetto phenonemon
I ride the NYC subway system pretty regularly and whenever I do I always stand right up against a wall in the station so that some schizophrenic doesn’t shove me onto the tracks.
Don’t know if you’ve ever been there but it is the most exciting city in the world. I’ve seen many cities in my day so I can speak from experience.
She would have learned far more in NYC than she could ever learn in Tanzania. True story: in the early 80s I visited Tanzania and once, when I came upon a telephone directory, I, just out of curiosity, checked to see if she was listed and she was. I kid you not!
Pretty sure the little shit has a name like “Taiquan” or “Darvarious”, or some such.
Shitstainius...............
Racist people just expecting and demanding harmless yutes to just bow down to them in every conceivable way, all the time, to the point of dictating their social manners with their cell phones, etc.
Yes
Passenger — described by the New York Post as being between 13 and 16 years old.
“Cordon it off and build a fence like with Mexico.”
Are they still even building the fence?
If it doesn’t list a color, then he’s black 100% of the time.
Since the victim appears to be black, they can’t make it about race. Probably do 5-7 years at most and get out.
They have killed people for that too. It doesn’t take much for perpetual victims to strike back at anyone they feel “disrespected” them.
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