{"id":410074,"date":"2026-07-23T23:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410074\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:42:08","slug":"las-vegas-teen-arrested-for-deadly-shooting-in-santa-monica-pier-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410074\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas teen arrested for deadly shooting in Santa Monica Pier parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested a 16-year-old boy accused of shooting a man to death in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/deadly-parking-lot-shooting-santa-monica-pier\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Santa Monica Pier<\/a>\u00a0parking lot earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deadly shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. on July 20, according to the Santa Monica Police Department. When officers arrived at Parking Lot 1 North, they found a man with several gunshot wounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First responders tried to treat the victim, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detectives believe two groups were in a physical altercation right before the shooting, and over the course of their investigation identified the Las Vegas teen as the gunman.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said the teen surrendered to police a day after the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Violence of any kind has no place in our community,&#8221; said Santa Monica Police Chief Darrick Jacob. &#8220;While nothing can replace the life that was lost, the swift and focused work of our detectives resulted in the suspect being safely taken into custody. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important step, but our work is not finished,&#8221; Jacob said. &#8220;Our beachfront is one of Santa Monica&#8217;s most heavily visited public spaces, and we remain committed to keeping it safe for residents, visitors, businesses, and everyone who comes to enjoy our community.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police urged witnesses or anyone with information on the case to contact Santa Monica PD at (310) 458-8491.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police arrested a 16-year-old boy accused of shooting a man to death in a Santa Monica Pier\u00a0parking lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-410074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}