{"id":351074,"date":"2026-07-24T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351074\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:36:15","slug":"mcso-16-year-old-killed-suspect-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351074\/","title":{"rendered":"MCSO: 16-year-old killed, suspect in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 A 16-year-old was shot in the head and killed early Friday morning in Madison. <\/p>\n<p>E Tyrone Edwards, the Chief of Police for the Madison County Police Department, says the call came in just before 3:00 a.m. Edwards says this happened at the Hilltop Apartment Complex in Madison. Right now, we know an arrest was made. Family members say the victim just turned 16 and has a child.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief declined to comment on further details as law enforcement continues its investigation into the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 A 16-year-old was shot in the head and killed early Friday morning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3429,242,1372,215,232,234,233,562],"class_list":["post-351074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-16-year-old","tag-abc-27","tag-madison-county","tag-shooting","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351074","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=351074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}