JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 The Jacksonville Police Department is investigating after a 6-year-old boy was killed Sunday night.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, May 17, at approximately 7:30 p.m., Jacksonville Police Department (JPD) officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 4000 block of South Highway 161. <\/p>\n
While en route to the scene, officers received updated information indicating that one individual had sustained a gunshot wound. <\/p>\n
Upon arrival, officers located the victim, a 6-year-old juvenile, in a vehicle suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
Officers immediately rendered aid, and the victim was transported to a local area hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased. <\/p>\n
The two adults in the vehicle with the juvenile were not injured.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing. Stay tuned to KATV for further details. <\/p>\n
Those with information related to this incident are encouraged to contact the JPD Criminal Investigation Division at (501)982-3191.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 The Jacksonville Police Department is investigating after a 6-year-old boy was killed Sunday night.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-275387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}