{"id":26036,"date":"2026-03-02T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=26036"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:05:40","slug":"juvenile-charged-with-murder-in-lakewood-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2026\/03\/juvenile-charged-with-murder-in-lakewood-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Charged With Murder in Lakewood Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_180\" style=\"width: 839px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM.png\" alt=\"Handcuffs (Shorebeat File Photo\/ banspy\/ Flickr)\" width=\"829\" height=\"618\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handcuffs (Shorebeat File Photo\/ banspy\/ Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A juvenile, whose name has not released publicly, has been charged with murder following a shooting in Lakewood on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, the shooting occurred at approximately 8:17 p.m., after which Lakewood police officers responded to the area of Pearl Street in reference to a male having suffered a gunshot wound. Responding officers discovered a juvenile male with a single gunshot wound to his back, the statement said. The victim was transported to Monmouth Medical Center. Southern Campus, in Lakewood where he succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation conducted by county and local authorities \u201crevealed that a juvenile was responsible for shooting and killing the victim,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThe juvenile is currently being detained in the Ocean County Juvenile Detention Center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said a state law precludes his office from releasing any additional information about the suspect, such as a name or photo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2026\/03\/juvenile-charged-with-murder-in-lakewood-shooting\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A juvenile, whose name has not released publicly, has been charged with murder following a shooting in Lakewood on Sunday. According to a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, the shooting occurred at approximately 8:17 p.m., after which Lakewood police officers responded to the area of Pearl Street in reference to a male having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,4484,57,232,1395],"class_list":["post-26036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-lakewood","tag-murder","tag-shooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-25-at-11.57.15-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6LW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26037,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26036\/revisions\/26037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}