{"id":59572,"date":"2025-11-25T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59572\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:55:15","slug":"high-school-senior-killed-in-shooting-at-westside-burger-king-was-set-to-join-marines-mom-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59572\/","title":{"rendered":"High school senior killed in shooting at Westside Burger King was set to join Marines, mom says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">A young man on a path to serve our country was gunned down Saturday night while working at a Burger King on Jacksonville\u2019s Westside, his mother tells News4JAX.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Jackson, 18, was fatally shot around 8:30 p.m. at a Burger King restaurant on Blanding Boulevard near Collins Road, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>News4JAX reporter Aleesia Hatcher has the latest.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS A young man on a path to serve our country was gunned down Saturday night while working&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23636,116,118,117,10315],"class_list":{"0":"post-59572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-burger-king","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-westside"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59572","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=59572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}