{"id":85587,"date":"2026-01-13T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85587\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:18:08","slug":"philadelphia-chipotle-shooting-teen-victim-identified-suspects-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/85587\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Chipotle shooting: Teen victim identified, suspects sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8k74o0qj32emz0vx.jpg\" alt=\"Teen shot and killed inside Chipotle bathroom on Temple University's campus\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Investigators have identified a 16-year-old boy who they say was found fatally shot in the bathroom of a Chipotle on Temple University&#8217;s campus Monday night.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to the Chipotle Mexican Grill on the 1100 block of Montgomery Avenue for reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police say 16-year-old Khyon Smith-Tate was found in the bathroom of the restaurant suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators believe Smith-Tate and another person entered the restaurant together and asked for the key to the bathroom just before the deadly shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police found one spent shell casing in the bathroom, leading investigators to believe that&#8217;s where the shooting happened. No arrests have been reported.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators are searching for three Black teenage boys who were all wearing backpacks at the time of the deadly shooting, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Investigators have identified a 16-year-old boy who they say was found fatally shot in the bathroom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-85587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85587","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=85587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}