{"id":243377,"date":"2026-01-26T22:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=243377"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:29:25","slug":"18-year-old-shot-and-killed-at-woodstock-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=243377","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old shot and killed at Woodstock apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An 18-year-old Woodstock teen was shot and killed Monday afternoon at the Riverstock Apartments on Arnold Mill Road, according to the Woodstock Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> Woodstock police responded to a 911 call shortly after 5:30 p.m. reporting a shooting. Officers found Matthew Milner shot and injured. He was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Important:<\/strong> Police have not released information about a suspect or what led to the shooting. The Cherokee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Path Forward:<\/strong> The investigation remains active. Police are asking anyone with information to call the Woodstock Police Department at (770) 592-6021 or email crimetips@woodstockga.gov. Whether charges will be filed depends on what investigators determine about the circumstances of the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old Woodstock teen was shot and killed Monday afternoon at the Riverstock Apartments on Arnold Mill Road, according to the Woodstock Police Department. What&#8217;s Happening: Woodstock police responded to a 911 call shortly after 5:30 p.m. reporting a shooting. Officers found Matthew Milner shot and injured. He was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":221321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[20797,20798,8519],"class_list":["post-243377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-matthew-milner","tag-riverstock-apartments","tag-shooting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}