{"id":575851,"date":"2026-04-01T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575851\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:20:15","slug":"vancouver-sidewalk-closed-after-reports-of-man-with-firearm-vpd-arrest-man-after-items-thrown-from-high-rise-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575851\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver sidewalk closed after reports of man with firearm VPD arrest man after items thrown from high rise building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) blocked off a section of sidewalk below an apartment building Tuesday night while responding to an incident downtown.<\/p>\n<p>The VPD says officers first responded to reports of a \u201cman with a firearm\u201d in an apartment building located at Seymour and Smithe streets.<\/p>\n<p>When police confronted the man, he allegedly began throwing items from the 11th-floor unit onto the street below.<\/p>\n<p>Around 9 p.m., police entered the suite and used a \u201cconducted energy weapon\u201d to take the man into custody.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260401-VPD-capital-residences-April-01-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4413652\"  \/>The VPD shut down the street below Capitol Residences in Vancouver on Tuesday, March 31.<\/p>\n<p>A 33-year-old man was taken to hospital for assessment before being transferred to the VPD jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) blocked off a section of sidewalk below an apartment building Tuesday night while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-575851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575851","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=575851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}