{"id":415545,"date":"2026-05-07T02:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415545\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:50:14","slug":"teen-boy-woman-fatally-shot-in-michigan-football-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415545\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen boy, woman fatally shot in Michigan football dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

A young man who was turned away from an informal football game in Michigan fatally shot a 14-year-old boy and killed a woman who tried to help the victim, all in the presence of other kids, local police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was at least seven or eight kids that are out here, juveniles, older juveniles that witnessed this, which is just horrific for anybody to witness, let alone juveniles,” said Joe Trigg, interim police chief in Grand Rapids.<\/p>\n

The shootings occurred Tuesday evening (local time) near Southwest Elementary School. Classes were canceled there Wednesday and at another nearby school.<\/p>\n

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A makeshift memorial set up at the scene of a double homicide outside Southwest Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Wednesday, May 6, 2025. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Trigg said kids were playing football when an 18-year-old asked to be included.<\/p>\n

“For whatever reason, he was turned away,\u201d Trigg told WOOD-TV. \u201cDid not like the fact that he was turned away so a verbal altercation started, which led to the suspect pulling out a firearm and shooting that juvenile. The adult female had came to the aid, verbally, of the juvenile victim so then she was targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The suspect fled but was caught and arrested, police said.<\/p>\n

The Grand Rapids school district closed two schools Wednesday so the community can \u201cprocess what has happened in our neighborhood\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man who was turned away from an informal football game in Michigan fatally shot a 14-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-415545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}