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Police arrested four people over the incident. Image \/ Pulse (File)<\/p>\nUpdated \u2013 4:50pm: Four people have been arrested following a firearms incident at Old Beach this morning where a shotgun was allegedly discharged during a dispute over a car.<\/p>\n
Police say the gun was fired once at about 7:35am after an altercation between two parties who knew each other.<\/p>\n
No one was wounded and there were no serious injuries reported.<\/p>\n
Two men allegedly stole a car from the Old Beach property after the incident and drove to Bridgewater.<\/p>\n
Police arrested four people over the incident. Image \/ Pulse (File)<\/p>\n
A 27-year-old man and 26-year-old woman were arrested a short time later when police found them in the stolen car.<\/p>\n
Police attended another Bridgewater property about 11:15am where an 18-year-old woman allegedly tried to flee in a car.<\/p>\n
She crashed on Gunn Street but was uninjured and arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n
A 27-year-old man believed to be involved in the morning firearms incident was then found in bushland in Gagebrook and taken into custody at 1.35pm.<\/p>\n
Police conducted traffic operations and targeted searches across Old Beach, Bridgewater and Gagebrook throughout the day.<\/p>\n
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Bridgewater residents may witness heavy police activity today as investigations continue. Image \/ Pulse (File)<\/p>\n
No charges have been laid yet and investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n
Police are asking anyone with information, dashcam or CCTV footage to contact them on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n
Earlier: Two people have been arrested following a gun shot in Old Beach this morning.<\/p>\n
Police say a gun was discharged during an altercation over an allegedly stolen car.<\/p>\n
Initial reports indicate the firearm was fired during a dispute between two parties who knew each other.<\/p>\n
The arrests occurred in the Bridgewater area, with members of the public likely to notice an increased police presence in Old Beach and Bridgewater as investigations continue.<\/p>\n
As a precautionary measure, the Jordan River Learning Federation Middle and Senior campus at Bridgewater was temporarily closed earlier this morning while police conducted searches near the school.<\/p>\n
No serious injuries are reported with police investigations continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated \u2013 4:50pm: Four people have been arrested following a firearms incident at Old Beach this morning where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-513523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}