{"id":106104,"date":"2024-06-25T00:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T00:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/shark-bites-14-year-old-boy-on-leg-at-north-carolina-beach-police\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T00:03:37","slug":"shark-bites-14-year-old-boy-on-leg-at-north-carolina-beach-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/shark-bites-14-year-old-boy-on-leg-at-north-carolina-beach-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark bites 14-year-old boy on leg at North Carolina beach: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-24\/GettyImages_PoliceLights_022323.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Oliver Helbig\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(OAHU, Hawaii) &#8212; A 14-year-old boy is recovering after a shark bit him on the leg at a North Carolina beach, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack unfolded around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, North Topsail Beach Police Chief William Younginer said. Beachgoers sprung into action, getting the boy out of the water and applying towels and pressure to slow the bleeding, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers and emergency medical technicians were already at the beach responding to another call, so the response time was about two minutes, Younginer said.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer applied a tourniquet and EMS stabilized the teen before he was taken to the nearest trauma center, Camp Lejune Naval Hospital, Younginer said.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors were able to repair the boy&#8217;s leg and he&#8217;s expected to be released soon, according to Younginer.<\/p>\n<p>The police chief praised the bystanders who took immediate action.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, a well-known surfer and lifeguard was killed in a shark attack near the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, emergency officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Tamayo Perry, 49, had been a lifeguard with Honolulu Ocean Safety since 2016. He was a local surf coach and competed for years in the Pipeline Master Trials, according to his official bio on his coaching site. Perry appeared in the 2002 movie &#8220;Blue Crush,&#8221; along with episodes of &#8220;Hawaii Five-O&#8221; and &#8220;The Bridge,&#8221; according to IMDb.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/stay-safe-shark-attacks-summer\/story?id=55812055\">here<\/a> for what to know about staying safe from sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Helbig\/Getty Images (OAHU, Hawaii) &#8212; A 14-year-old boy is recovering after a shark bit him on the leg at a North Carolina beach, authorities said. The attack unfolded around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, North Topsail Beach Police Chief William Younginer said. Beachgoers sprung into action, getting the boy out of<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/shark-bites-14-year-old-boy-on-leg-at-north-carolina-beach-police\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}