{"id":197720,"date":"2025-09-03T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197720\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:27:13","slug":"teen-arrested-days-after-deadly-downtown-phoenix-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197720\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested days after deadly downtown Phoenix shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Police have identified and arrested a teenage suspect in a shooting that left a man dead in downtown Phoenix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/08\/22\/man-dead-after-shooting-downtown-phoenix\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/08\/22\/man-dead-after-shooting-downtown-phoenix\/\">last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Officers responded to the shooting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/E+Buckeye+Rd+%26+7th+St,+Phoenix,+AZ+85034\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b11f185fbef8f:0x17d7cb36278e539d?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/E+Buckeye+Rd+%26+7th+St,+Phoenix,+AZ+85034\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b11f185fbef8f:0x17d7cb36278e539d?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\">7th Street and Buckeye Road<\/a> around 10:45 p.m. on Aug. 21, where they found 45-year-old Porfirio Medina seriously injured with at least one gunshot wound. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Medina was transported to a hospital, where he later died. Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner has classified his cause of death as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Phoenix police confirmed on Wednesday that a 16-year-old boy has since been taken into custody. It\u2019s unclear if Medina knew the suspect, and Arizona\u2019s Family is working to gather additional information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The case has been referred to the Juvenile Court Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Police have identified and arrested a teenage suspect in a shooting that left a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,109720,1589,9497,74399,7183,109721,109722,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-197720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-downtown-phoenix-shooting","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-crime","15":"tag-phoenix-homicide","16":"tag-phoenix-news","17":"tag-porfirio-medina","18":"tag-teen-murder-arrest","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}