{"id":149612,"date":"2021-12-23T04:48:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=149612"},"modified":"2021-12-23T04:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T09:48:18","slug":"weekend-shooting-victim-identified-by-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/12\/23\/weekend-shooting-victim-identified-by-pd\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend shooting victim identified by PD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Van Wert independent news<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Police Department has confirmed the identity of the person who suffered a fatal gunshot wound on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim has been identified as 13-year-old Kaine Leppard, an eighth grade student at Van Wert Middle School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lt. Robert Black said police and EMS were summoned to a home in the 600 block of South Tyler Street at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in response to a gunshot. No other information has been released yet and the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, a GoFundMe page has been established and can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/memorial-for-kaine?utm_source=facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR0IDMdKgNrB0yKHpciGTACi7OKW8qm7_JQa8itApVX7NQ5cVO-QUNegD_Q\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent news The Van Wert Police Department has confirmed the identity of the person who suffered a fatal gunshot wound on Sunday. The victim has been identified as 13-year-old Kaine Leppard, an eighth grade student at Van Wert Middle School. Lt. Robert Black said police and EMS were summoned to a home in [&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-149612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 23:28:48","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\/149612","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=149612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}