{"id":22189,"date":"2026-06-22T07:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/downtown-nashville-shooting-12-year-old-boy-killed-during-fight-between-group-of-teens\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:19:52","slug":"downtown-nashville-shooting-12-year-old-boy-killed-during-fight-between-group-of-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/downtown-nashville-shooting-12-year-old-boy-killed-during-fight-between-group-of-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Nashville shooting: 12-year-old boy killed during fight between group of teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div readability=\"36\">\n<p class=\"content\"><span>The Metro Nashville Police Department has launched an investigation after a 12-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed in downtown Nashville Sunday night, June 21. The shooting took place in the 400 block of Union Street around 7:30 pm, according to WSMV.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"artImage leadImage\">\n<div class=\" \"><picture class=\"leadImageClass\"><source media=\"(min-width:768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2026\/06\/22\/550x309\/pexels-photo-10480829_1782112481460_1782112495749_9c6fc55f-42a9-49a5-ab51-ad68571698c7.jpeg\" alt=\"Downtown Nashville shooting: 12-year-old boy killed during fight between group of teens (Pexel - representational image)\"><\/source><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class>Downtown Nashville shooting: 12-year-old boy killed during fight between group of teens (Pexel &ndash; representational image)<span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>MNPD told the outlet that the boy was shot during a fight between a group of teens.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Downtown Nashville shooting: 12-year-old boy killed during fight between group of teens<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metro Nashville Police Department has launched an investigation after a 12-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed in downtown Nashville Sunday night, June 21. The shooting took place in the 400 block of Union Street around 7:30 pm, according to WSMV. Downtown Nashville shooting: 12-year-old boy killed during fight between group of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/downtown-nashville-shooting-12-year-old-boy-killed-during-fight-between-group-of-teens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Downtown Nashville shooting: 12-year-old boy killed during fight between group of teens&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}