{"id":843359,"date":"2026-09-10T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843359\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:26:11","slug":"police-investigate-shooting-near-church-street-south-lynn-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/843359\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate shooting near Church Street, South Lynn Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police investigate shooting near Church Street, South Lynn Avenue<\/p>\n

Published 3:41 pm Thursday, September 10, 2026<\/p>\n

By Brittnee Bryant
Star Correspondent<\/p>\n

Elizabethton police are investigating a shooting involving a juvenile Thursday afternoon near the intersection of Church Street and South Lynn Avenue.<\/p>\n

According to the Elizabethton Police Department, the shooting occurred at approximately 1 p.m. Sept. 10. Police said a juvenile male was walking when he was allegedly shot by an occupant of a moving vehicle.<\/p>\n

The juvenile was alert and walking following the shooting and did not appear to have life-threatening injuries, police said. He was transported by EMS to a local hospital.<\/p>\n

Initial reports indicate the juvenile was also armed and fired back at the moving vehicle, according to police.<\/p>\n

No suspect had been identified as of Thursday afternoon. Police Chief Jason Shaw said investigators believe the shooting was a targeted attack. Police said the incident appears to have been isolated, with an occupant of the vehicle targeting the juvenile.<\/p>\n


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Officers said they do not believe the shooting presents an ongoing threat to the community.<\/p>\n

As a precaution, Elizabethton City Schools were placed on a soft lockdown following the shooting. The lockdown was later lifted. Police said the shooting was not a school-related incident.<\/p>\n

The investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with information that could assist investigators may submit an anonymous tip through the Elizabethton Police Department\u2019s tip411 service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigate shooting near Church Street, South Lynn Avenue Published 3:41 pm Thursday, September 10, 2026 By Brittnee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-843359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}