{"id":72659,"date":"2026-04-26T05:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/teen-arrested-in-louisiana-shooting-got-ride-from-scene-from-grandmother\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T10:55:11","slug":"teen-arrested-in-louisiana-shooting-got-ride-from-scene-from-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/teen-arrested-in-louisiana-shooting-got-ride-from-scene-from-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested in Louisiana shooting got ride from scene from grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No indication grandmother knew what Markel Lee, 17, was suspected of doing, and she later identified him to police<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A 17-year-old accused of murder in Thursday\u2019s mass shooting at a Louisiana mall that left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/24\/louisiana-mall-shooting-victim-identified-martha-odom\">a high school senior dead<\/a> while wounding five others got a ride away from the crime scene from his grandmother \u2013 and was arrested after investigators used surveillance video and license plate readers to track her car down, authorities allege.<\/p>\n<p>There is no indication that Markel Lee\u2019s grandmother knew what he was suspected of doing prior to his arrest, which evidently occurred after she told police that her grandson was in a surveillance image they showed her depicting someone seemingly aiming a pistol toward the shopping center food court where the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/26\/teen-louisiana-mass-shooting-grandmother\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No indication grandmother knew what Markel Lee, 17, was suspected of doing, and she later identified him to police Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A 17-year-old accused of murder in Thursday\u2019s mass shooting at a Louisiana mall that left a high school senior dead while &#8230; <a title=\"Teen arrested in Louisiana shooting got ride from scene from grandmother\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/teen-arrested-in-louisiana-shooting-got-ride-from-scene-from-grandmother\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Teen arrested in Louisiana shooting got ride from scene from grandmother\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}