{"id":254553,"date":"2026-04-17T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254553\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:38:10","slug":"17-year-old-boy-fatally-shot-thursday-in-wylie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254553\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old boy fatally shot Thursday in Wylie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot Thursday evening\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/wylie\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at a Wylie park<\/a>, police officials say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded shortly after 6\u00a0p.m. to reports of shots fired in Dodd Park, located in the 1500 block of Selma Lane.<\/p>\n<p>There, they found 17-year-old\u00a0Ty\u2019Ron Kuria in a field with multiple gunshot wounds, according to Sgt. Donald English, a Wylie police spokesman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kuria was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, but English said several males were seen running in various directions after the gunfire erupted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No additional information about the shooting was immediately available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot Thursday evening\u00a0at a Wylie park, police officials say.\u00a0 Officers responded shortly after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-254553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254553","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=254553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}