{"id":203150,"date":"2026-04-20T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203150\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:02:22","slug":"motorcycle-crash-kills-20-year-old-from-watertown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/203150\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle crash kills 20-year-old from Watertown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOWN OF HOUNSFIELD, New York (WWNY) &#8211; The Jefferson County\u2019s Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that happened early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say at 1:30am, a group of motorcyclists was on Jericho Road in the Town of Hounsfield when 2 of the motorcyclists went off the road at a curve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One motorcycle, a 2005 Yamaha driven by 20-year-old Patrick McGrew Jr. of Watertown, hit a parked pickup truck in a driveway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A 2007 Yamaha driven by 33-year-old Cheyenne Middlemiss of Evans Mills hit a mailbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When police got on scene, other motorcyclists were helping the 2 injured riders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">McGrew was taken to Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown and later passed away from his injuries, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Middlemiss was flown to a Syracuse hospital and is in stable condition, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF HOUNSFIELD, New York (WWNY) &#8211; The Jefferson County\u2019s Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating a fatal motorcycle crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31247,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-203150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-fatal-crash-wwny","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-new-york-state","13":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}