{"id":142159,"date":"2021-04-19T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142159"},"modified":"2021-04-19T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:00:01","slug":"victim-identified-in-scott-area-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/04\/19\/victim-identified-in-scott-area-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim identified in Scott area shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim in last Tuesday&#8217;s shooting near Scott has been identified, according to a release from Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zy&#8217;Keera Townsend, 17, of Lima, died after being shot at a residence at 1339 Scott Road in Union Township. The young girl was a student at Apollo Career Center in Lima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young suspect in the shooting, whose name and age have not been released, is facing charges of murder, an unclassified felony; attempted murder, a felony of the first degree; and felonious assault, a second-degree felony; in connection with Miss Townsend&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He remains incarcerated following an initial court appearance last Tuesday in Van Wert County Juvenile Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the sheriff, his office received a 9-1-1 call at 9:59 a.m Tuesday reporting a shooting at the Scott Road address. Upon arrival, deputies found Miss Townsend and she was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect in the case fled the scene prior to deputies&#8217; arrival, but was quickly apprehended in the village of Scott. The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and submitted information The victim in last Tuesday&#8217;s shooting near Scott has been identified, according to a release from Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach. Zy&#8217;Keera Townsend, 17, of Lima, died after being shot at a residence at 1339 Scott Road in Union Township. The young girl was a student at Apollo Career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 20:33:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}