{"id":254824,"date":"2026-04-17T22:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254824\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:22:12","slug":"wylie-shooting-17-year-old-shot-several-times-in-field-at-dodd-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254824\/","title":{"rendered":"Wylie shooting: 17-year-old shot several times in field at Dodd Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776464532_156_police-lights_-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">WYLIE, Texas &#8211; A 17-year-old died Thursday evening after he was shot multiple times in a field at a Wylie park, according to police.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Wylie police responded to reports of gunfire at Dodd Park just after 6 p.m. Thursday. Witnesses told investigators they heard several shots before seeing several males running from the area in different directions.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officers discovered a victim in a nearby field suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Police performed lifesaving measures until the victim was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities identified the victim as 17-year-old Ty\u2019Ron Kuria.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing as detectives work to determine a motive. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Wylie Police Department at 972-442-8171.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">It is currently unclear how many suspects were involved or if they were known to the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from Wylie police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/collin-county\/wylie\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wylie<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article WYLIE, Texas &#8211; A 17-year-old died Thursday evening after he was shot multiple times in a field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[960,1046,223,160,162,161,216,393,1292],"class_list":{"0":"post-254824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-collin-county","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wylie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254824","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=254824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}