{"id":833787,"date":"2026-07-29T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:09:12","slug":"2-males-killed-in-stoney-creek-double-shooting-hamilton-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833787\/","title":{"rendered":"2 males killed in Stoney Creek double shooting: Hamilton police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton police are investigating a deadly double shooting after two males were found shot and killed early Wednesday morning in Stoney Creek.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to Candlewood Drive, in the east\u2011Hamilton neighbourhood, at around 2:30 a.m., where they located two males suffering from gunshot wounds. Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released the victims\u2019 ages or any information about possible suspects. The circumstances leading up to the shooting also remain unclear, and investigators have not said whether the attack appears targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton Police say more information will be released as it becomes available. <\/p>\n<p>The Homicide Unit is urging anyone with details \u2014 including home\u2011security video \u2014 to contact investigators or reach out anonymously through Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto 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=toronto.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\/07\/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":"Hamilton police are investigating a deadly double shooting after two males were found shot and killed early Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-833787","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\/833787","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=833787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}