{"id":1951404,"date":"2023-06-19T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T23:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/juneteenth-festival-abruptly-canceled-after-two-teens-are-shot\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T23:41:32","slug":"juneteenth-festival-abruptly-canceled-after-two-teens-are-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/juneteenth-festival-abruptly-canceled-after-two-teens-are-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth Festival canceled due to shooting of two teens."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjuneteenth-festival-abruptly-canceled-after-two-teens-are-shot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1951404&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Juneteenth Celebration in Asheville Ends in Gunfire<\/h2>\n<p>A Juneteenth celebration that was scheduled to last two days in Asheville, North Carolina, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-visits-tulsa-to-commemorate-1921-race-massacre-sidesteps-question-of-reparations-for-survivors\/\" title=\"Biden Visits Tulsa To Commemorate 1921 Race Massacre, Sidesteps Question Of Reparations For Survivors\">abruptly canceled<\/a> when gunfire erupted, sending two minors to the hospital on the event\u2019s first day.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred on Saturday just as the day\u2019s Juneteenth festivities were coming to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s activities were canceled 12 hours before the second day\u2019s events were to begin with an announcement from the Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are saddened that a day of celebration and community unity was darken[ed] by a cloud of violence. We pray for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/users-of-marijuana-may-require-more-anesthesia-for-surgery\/\" title=\"Users of Marijuana May Require More Anesthesia for Surgery\">healthy recovery<\/a> of the victims, for justice to prevail, and that all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-governor-encourages-people-to-call-police-on-neighbors-violating-covid-orders\/\" title=\"Oregon Governor Encourages People To Call Police On Neighbors Violating COVID Orders\">community members<\/a> be safe and at peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The shooting occurred just before 9 p.m. Saturday in the Court Plaza area of Pack Square Park in Asheville, according to The News &#038; Observer in Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers quickly arrived on the scene and found two juveniles who were victims of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-covid-deaths-are-greatly-exaggerated-he-must-be-talking-about-all-of-the-poisonings-and-shootings-they-threw-on-the-list\/\" title=\"Trump Says COVID Deaths Are Greatly Exaggerated \u2013 He Must Be Talking About All of the Poisonings and Shootings They Threw on the List\">gunshot wounds<\/a>,\u201d the Asheville Police Department said Sunday in a post on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers were able to locate two suspects nearby and took them into custody. Detectives were able to clear one and identify the other as the principal offender,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the assistance of the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Buncombe County District Attorney\u2019s Office, the juvenile was charged with two counts of Felonious Assault with Deadly Weapon with Intent to Kill Inflicting Serious Injury,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said they recovered a 9mm pistol and \u201ca host of physical evidence that littered the park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They said the name of the suspected shooter, who is 16, was being withheld because the suspect is a juvenile.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A 16-year-old, whose name is not being released, is facing two counts of Felonious Assault with a Deadly Weapon with Intent to Kill Inflicting Serious Injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EzGlAEyTP4\">https:\/\/t.co\/EzGlAEyTP4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX Carolina News (@foxcarolinanews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxcarolinanews\/status\/1670506692746813440?\">June 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Asheville event is far from the only Juneteenth event that was marred by violence.<\/p>\n<p>A shooting during a celebration Sunday in Willowbrook, Illinois, left at least 20 people wounded and one person dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was chaotic. Chaos, pure chaos,\u201d said witness Nayetta Reed, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/p>\n<p>Reed said she had helped break up at least two fights among teenage girls before the shooting but did not think the shooting was related to those events.<\/p>\n<p>It has happened in the past as well. Last year\u2019s Juneteenth event in Washington was beset with violence and led to the death of a 15-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<h3>What is Juneteenth?<\/h3>\n<p>Juneteenth marks the anniversary of June 19, 1865, the day Army Gen. Gordon Granger pronounced the slaves in Texas to be free at the end of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>For years, black Americans have celebrated that day as the \u201cend of slavery,\u201d even though slavery was not exactly a dead letter on that particular date.<\/p>\n<p>The actual date of the end of slavery came Dec. 6, 1865, when the last two states that had legal slavery \u2014 Delaware and Kentucky \u2014 ended the practice. That was when the 13th Amendment was ratified, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/juneteenth-festival-abruptly-canceled-after-two-teens-are-shot\/\" title=\"Juneteenth Festival canceled due to shooting of two teens.\">officially ending slavery<\/a> across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/juneteenth-festival-abruptly-canceled-two-teens-shot\/\">Juneteenth Festival Abruptly Canceled After Two Teens Are Shot<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-day Juneteenth celebration in Asheville, NC, was canceled after gunfire injured two minors on the first day. The shooting happened on Saturday as the festivities were ending. 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