{"id":251319,"date":"2026-04-15T19:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:20:15","slug":"teen-arrested-after-shots-fired-at-east-el-paso-park-triggering-school-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/251319\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested after shots fired at East El Paso park triggering school lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 16-year-old was arrested in connection with a shooting at an East El Paso park that shut down a high school on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso Police Department, a large fight broke out at Jim Crouch Park, previously known as Ponder Park, and as a result, one person ran to a car, pulled out a gun and fired into the air multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>EPPD&#8217;s Gang Unit investigated the shooting and said it determined the suspect was the 16-year-old, and took them into custody and referred them to the Juvenile Probation Department. <\/p>\n<p>As was reported on Monday, the shooting triggered a lockdown at Burges High School, which is nearby. <\/p>\n<p>Luckily, no injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/police-investigate-reports-of-a-shooting-at-east-el-paso-park?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police investigate reports of a shooting at East El Paso park; high school lockdown lifted<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 16-year-old was arrested in connection with a shooting at an East El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-251319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251319","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=251319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}