{"id":815875,"date":"2026-07-21T07:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815875\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:24:17","slug":"police-investigate-daytime-shooting-in-downtown-kitchener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815875\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate daytime shooting in downtown Kitchener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating a shooting in downtown Kitchener Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police posted on X, formerly Twitter, just before 5 p.m. asking people to avoid the area of King Street W., between Young Street and Ontario Street. They said officers were &#8220;investigating reports of gunshots into a Kitchener business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no reports of any physical injuries,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>Details about what happened were not immediately available. <\/p>\n<p>Yellow police tape blocked off King Street. The glass from a bus shelter in front of the Pur Cannabis store could be seen shattered on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Expect an increase in police presence in the area,&#8221; police said on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-815875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815875","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=815875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}