{"id":785422,"date":"2026-07-07T05:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785422\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:52:46","slug":"shots-fired-between-vehicles-on-merivale-road-leads-to-1-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785422\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots fired between vehicles on Merivale Road leads to 1 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish-date\">Posted Jul 6, 2026 01:46:35 PM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-modified-date\">Last Updated Jul 6, 2026 01:46:40 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa police responded to a scene involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawapolice.ca\/en\/news\/merivale-road-shooting-investigation.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">two large groups of people where gunfire erupted on Saturday night<\/a> in a west end community.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders went to the 1600 block of Merivale Road, a commercial complex, around 7:20 p.m. after reports of a fight between two groups of people. Police were told that shots were fired into one of the vehicles in the altercation, where one passenger was struck by a bullet. They were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were taken into police custody but were later released after further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa police are asking anyone with information to come forward. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Ottawa as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=ottawa.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778352312_74_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Jul 6, 2026 01:46:35 PM. Last Updated Jul 6, 2026 01:46:40 PM. Ottawa police responded to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-785422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785422","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=785422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}