{"id":1658,"date":"2025-10-15T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1658\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:14:24","slug":"loved-ones-honor-life-of-teen-shot-killed-in-upper-darby-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1658\/","title":{"rendered":"Loved ones honor life of teen shot, killed in Upper Darby \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family of 16-year-old Khalif Webster paid tribute to his life one week after he was shot and killed in Upper Darby<\/a> following an argument.<\/p>\n

Members of Webster’s family are embracing one another and all wore his picture on their shirts for a balloon release on Monday, May 26. <\/p>\n

“I did not lose my son. I will take my son everywhere with me,” his mother said. <\/p>\n

Family told NBC10 that Webster was a football player and someone who would make anything happen if he set his mind to it. <\/p>\n

Also in attendance at the balloon release were the superintendent of police and the township’s mayor who shared a message to end the violence. <\/p>\n

Webster’s life was taken on Sunday, May 18 after an argument between two young people broke out just before 3 p.m. in the area of Long Lane and Pine Street, according to officials. <\/p>\n

“He had a bright future,” Upper Darby Mayor Ed Brown said of Webster during a press conference last week. “Every time we lose someone like that, our community is weakened.”<\/p>\n

The alleged shooter, 17-year-old Michael Nixon, was then seen on surveillance cameras running<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nixon is now facing murder charges as an adult after he turned himself into police last week. <\/p>\n

Nixon is currently being held in a Delaware County jail and was denied bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 6, 2025.<\/p>\n

Webster is the second\u00a0student in the Upper Darby School District to be taken by gun violence<\/a>\u00a0in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of 16-year-old Khalif Webster paid tribute to his life one week after he was shot and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,758,28,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-delaware-county","tag-gun-violence","tag-pennsylvania","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}