{"id":109843,"date":"2026-01-03T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109843\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:25:08","slug":"teen-killed-handling-fireworks-on-new-years-day-in-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109843\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Killed Handling Fireworks on New Year\u2019s Day in Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, TX \u2014 An 18-year-old man was killed New Year\u2019s Day after being seriously injured in a fireworks accident in north Lubbock, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Lubbock Police Department said officers were dispatched around 7:21 p.m. Jan. 1 to a report of a person injured while handling fireworks near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Dartmouth+St+%26+N+Ulrich+Ave,+Lubbock,+TX+79415\/@33.6215135,-101.9480639,28725m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x86fe12eaf41101e1:0x43d75777f4347cb5!8m2!3d33.6044989!4d-101.8638241!16s%2Fg%2F11h9zdzxgv!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA3MUgBUAM%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Ulrich Avenue and Dartmouth Street.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived to find the teen with critical injuries and began life-saving measures until emergency medical services arrived, according to police. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined the teen was with family and friends shooting fireworks in the street when a firework he was holding went off near his head, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, TX \u2014 An 18-year-old man was killed New Year\u2019s Day after being seriously injured in a fireworks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-109843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}