{"id":457093,"date":"2026-10-05T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457093\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:40:07","slug":"dallas-juvenile-dies-after-apparent-self-inflicted-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/457093\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas: Juvenile Dies After Apparent Self-Inflicted Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Juvenile dies after apparent self-inflicted shooting on Edgedale Drive in Dallas | Police lights, tape – do not cross | Image by Canva <\/p>\n

A 16-year-old girl was shot and killed Sunday afternoon in South Dallas, according to police and the Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Dallas Police officers responded<\/a> to a shooting call at approximately 4:10 p.m. in the 600 block of Edgedale Drive<\/a>, in an area just north of West Wheatland Avenue.<\/p>\n

When officers arrived,<\/a> they found the juvenile had suffered a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Police Investigating as Self-Inflicted Shooting<\/p>\n

The Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office identified the victim as a 16-year-old female.<\/p>\n

Dallas police said the shooting is being investigated as self-inflicted. Authorities have not released additional details about the circumstances surrounding the death.<\/p>\n

The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

Police had initially reported only that a juvenile had been shot and killed and had not released the victim\u2019s age. Further information was provided by the medical examiner as the investigation continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juvenile dies after apparent self-inflicted shooting on Edgedale Drive in Dallas | Police lights, tape – do not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[156489,102,104,103,401,103563,156487,156485,156486,149024,156488,1884],"class_list":["post-457093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-16-year-old","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-dallas-shooting","tag-edgedale-drive","tag-juvenile-death","tag-juvenile-shot","tag-self-inflicted","tag-self-inflicted-shootingjuvenile-dies-in-edgedale-drive-shooting","tag-south-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457093","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=457093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}