{"id":113286,"date":"2025-09-02T03:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113286\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T03:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T03:19:08","slug":"iio-deployed-to-burnaby-after-witnesses-report-gunshots-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113286\/","title":{"rendered":"IIO deployed to Burnaby after witnesses report gunshots &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B.C.\u2019s civilian police watchdog has been deployed to a potential police-involved shooting in Burnaby.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110368_560_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Witnesses in the Burnaby Heights area reported hearing five to six gunshots around 3 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Investigation Office confirmed it had been deployed to the scene, but has not released any additional information.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Photos submitted to Global News appear to show police officers huddled over someone sprawled out on the road.<\/p>\n<p>The Burnaby RCMP and B.C. Emergency Health Services have yet to respond to a request for information.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>There was still a large police presence in the area late Monday evening, with Dundas Street taped off for three blocks, along with a small section of a back lane near Rosser Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C.\u2019s civilian police watchdog has been deployed to a potential police-involved shooting in Burnaby. Witnesses in the Burnaby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,63886,44],"class_list":["post-113286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-iio","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}