{"id":61613,"date":"2025-12-15T19:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61613\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:47:06","slug":"scranton-police-identify-teen-shooting-victim-detain-juvenile-on-gun-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61613\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton police identify teen shooting victim, detain juvenile on gun charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teenager fatally shot inside a Scranton residence on Friday was identified as Dylan Smith, 16, of Taylor, Scranton police announced Monday in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, officers were dispatched to 1337 Bryn Mawr St. for a reported shooting victim and found a juvenile male with a gunshot wound, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police began life-saving measures before transporting Smith by ambulance to Geisinger Community Medical Center, where he died from his injuries, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, detectives determined the firearm used in the incident was reported stolen from Archbald Borough two weeks earlier, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives interviewed three juveniles on the night of the incident, and they detained one juvenile on a felony charge of possession of a firearm by a minor, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was an isolated incident, and there is no threat to the public, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An active criminal investigation remains ongoing, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the incident should contact detectives by using the Scranton Police anonymous tip line \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/scrantonpa.gov\/police-online-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scrantonpa.gov\/police-online-services\/<\/a> \u2014 or by calling 570-348-4134, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teenager fatally shot inside a Scranton residence on Friday was identified as Dylan Smith, 16, of Taylor,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2117,202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,4168,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-61613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-archbald","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-lackawanna-county","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-scranton","15":"tag-scranton-headlines","16":"tag-scranton-news","17":"tag-taylor","18":"tag-top-stories-stt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61613","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=61613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}