{"id":614693,"date":"2026-04-19T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/614693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:33:09","slug":"two-people-shot-outside-downtown-montreal-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/614693\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people shot outside downtown Montreal bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were wounded by gunfire early Sunday outside a downtown Montreal bar, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The men, 26 and 38, were struck in the lower body, Montreal police spokesperson Caroline Ch\u00e8vrefils said. Several 911 calls alerted police to the incident around 1:45 a.m., she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to preliminary information, there may have been a fight involving several people in front of the licensed establishment,\u201d she said. Suspects fled on foot before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were conscious when police reached the scene, Ch\u00e8vrefils said, and were transported to a hospital. Their lives are not considered to be in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they have set up a security perimeter and that an investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were wounded by gunfire early Sunday outside a downtown Montreal bar, police say. The men, 26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-614693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614693","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=614693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}