{"id":282895,"date":"2026-05-24T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282895\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T16:22:11","slug":"vigil-honors-6-year-old-amir-houston-as-jacksonville-police-seek-shooting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282895\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil honors 6-year-old A&#8217;mir Houston as Jacksonville police seek shooting suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 A crowd gathered at the Jacksonville Community Center on Tuesday night for a candlelight vigil honoring 6-year-old A&#8217;mir Houston and calling for an end to gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Friends, family and community members came together to support Houston\u2019s family after the child was shot multiple times Sunday night and later died.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Houston was found inside a car along Highway 161 with two adults who were not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville police are continuing to search for a suspect identified as 21-year-old Artavius Dontal Johnson. Police said Johnson was last seen driving a white 2012 Hyundai Elantra with Arkansas license plate BGP35N and is considered armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Johnson\u2019s whereabouts is asked to call the Jacksonville Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 A crowd gathered at the Jacksonville Community Center on Tuesday night for a candlelight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-282895","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\/282895","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=282895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}