{"id":61759,"date":"2025-12-15T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61759\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:40:07","slug":"teenagers-death-under-investigation-by-scranton-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61759\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager&#8217;s death under investigation by Scranton Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A juvenile has been detained as police continue to investigate the death of a 16-year-old who was shot with a stolen gun, according to a release from Scranton Police. <\/p>\n<p>Dylan Smith, 16, of Taylor, was shot on Friday at 1337 Bryn Mawr St., in West Scranton, according to the release. Police were called to the house and began life-saving measures. Dylan was transported to Geisinger Community Medical Center, where he died. <\/p>\n<p>The detained juvenile was charged with a felony possession of a firearm by a minor, according to the release. Police say the gun was reported stolen two weeks ago in Archbald.  <\/p>\n<p>Officers interviewed three other juveniles after the incident. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was an isolated incident and there is no threat to the public,&#8221; according to the release. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact Scranton Police at 570-348-4134 or use the <a href=\"https:\/\/scrantonpa.gov\/police-online-services\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tipline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A juvenile has been detained as police continue to investigate the death of a 16-year-old who was shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-61759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61759","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=61759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}