{"id":282116,"date":"2026-05-23T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282116\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:38:25","slug":"shooting-on-us-31-in-miami-county-leaves-one-hurt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282116\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting on US 31 in Miami County leaves one hurt | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"police lights\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/688bc030e291a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PERU, Ind. (WLFI) &#8211; Indiana State Police are investigating a shooting that happened late Sunday night on US 31 near County Road 200 North in Miami County.<\/p>\n<p>Police and Miami County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies responded to a crash report around 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, they found two people, and one of them had been shot.<\/p>\n<p>Police used K9 units, drones, and a helicopter to search nearby woods for other people who reportedly ran from the scene. No one else was found, but police did find and secure a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined the gunshot came from inside the car.<\/p>\n<p>At the scene, police arrested Jadyn E. Watts, 19, of Niles, Michigan. Watts was found with a narcotic drug and faces a Level 6 felony charge.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the Miami County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>The person who was shot was taken to a hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLFI. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PERU, Ind. (WLFI) &#8211; Indiana State Police are investigating a shooting that happened late Sunday night on US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[265,3156,634,123,125,124,115,278],"class_list":["post-282116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime","tag-indiana","tag-local","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282116","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=282116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}