{"id":26306,"date":"2024-04-21T04:49:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26306"},"modified":"2024-04-21T04:49:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T09:49:39","slug":"2-dead-6-injured-in-memphis-block-party-shooting-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26306","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 6 injured in Memphis block party shooting, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Two people were killed and six were injured as a block party with hundreds of attendees turned deadly at a park in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Officers responding to Orange Mound Park at about 7 p.m. found two men dead at the scene, the Memphis Police Department said in a statement. Both appeared to have gunshot wounds, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis said during a press conference that 14 people had been hospitalized following the shooting, but the department later posted an update revising the figure down to six.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We believe the error occurred with several victims being reported multiple times,&#8221; the department said on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/greenbelt-maryland-senior-ditch-day-shooting\/story?id=109439385\"><\/a>Three people were transported to area hospitals in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One of those injured people was still in critical condition at about midnight, police said in an update. Another person had been discharged from the hospital, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Authorities said they believed that between 200 and 300 people attended the party on Saturday. Davis said that preliminary information suggests that the block party was not permitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Police do not have any suspects in custody at this time but believe that at least two people fired weapons in this shooting incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/2-dead-14-hospitalized-memphis-block-party-shooting\/story?id=109470271\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed and six were injured as a block party with hundreds of attendees turned deadly at a park in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, police said. Officers responding to Orange Mound Park at about 7 p.m. found two men dead at the scene, the Memphis Police Department said in a statement. Both appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[23924,27921,2210,27920,1237,10310,1530],"class_list":["post-26306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-2-people","tag-6-people","tag-dead","tag-memphis-block-party","tag-police","tag-resulting-in","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26308,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26306\/revisions\/26308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}