{"id":68185,"date":"2024-02-22T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/boy-17-fatally-shot-in-kent-in-exchange-of-gunfire\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T16:46:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:46:05","slug":"boy-17-fatally-shot-in-kent-in-exchange-of-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/boy-17-fatally-shot-in-kent-in-exchange-of-gunfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 17, fatally shot in Kent in exchange of gunfire identified | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot Tuesday night, Feb. 20 in Kent<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/oCSt1Qbjy8TzGXpy9\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\"> along East Valley Highway, just south of South 180th <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/oCSt1Qbjy8TzGXpy9\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed-Amin Farah died of a gunshot wound of the head while riding in a vehicle and the manner of death is homicide, according to the King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office Feb. 22 report.<\/p>\n<p>Initial indications are that subjects in two separate vehicles exchanged gunfire, causing the injury to the teen, according to a Feb. 21 Kent Police news release.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were dispatched at about 9:38 p.m. to the Valley Medical Center in Renton after hospital staff called 911 to report Farah with a bullet wound to his head, according to police. Dispatch advised that the teen had been dropped off by two unidentified males who then fled the area.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital staff provided lifesaving medical aid, but Farah did not survive his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Officers located witnesses and evidence that Farah was shot on East Valley Highway, just south of South 180th Street, in Kent near the city border of Renton.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives responded to the scene and are conducting an extensive investigation.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information about this incident or the subjects involved, contact the Kent Police Department by calling the KPD tipline at 253-856-5808 or email KPDTipLine@kentwa.gov. Call 911 with time sensitive tips and\/or if you have information about the identity of any of the involved subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting between subjects in vehicles Feb. 20 along East Valley Highway near South 180th Street <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":68186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68185"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}