{"id":817403,"date":"2026-07-21T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817403\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:52:16","slug":"rcmp-responding-to-serious-incident-at-north-vancouvers-westview-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817403\/","title":{"rendered":"RCMP responding to &#8216;serious incident&#8217; at North Vancouver&#8217;s Westview Plaza"},"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>RCMP in North Vancouver say they are responding to a &#8220;serious incident&#8221; at the Westview Plaza shopping centre on Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>In a social media post shortly after 2:30 p.m. PT, police urged the public to avoid the area. <\/p>\n<p>Jackie Patton, who lives nearby, told CBC News she was having lunch when she heard multiple police sirens rush into the plaza. <\/p>\n<p>She said about a minute later, she heard three shots. <\/p>\n<p>An Esso gas station and McDonald&#8217;s restaurant are behind police tape, and the entrance to the plaza parking lot is closed as of 4 p.m. PT.  <\/p>\n<p>Police have not specified the nature of the call, but said that the plaza off Highway 1 at Westview Drive was closed as officers investigated. <\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/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":817404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-817403","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\/817403","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=817403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}