{"id":903630,"date":"2026-09-21T03:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903630\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T03:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:42:10","slug":"belleville-police-involved-in-old-east-hill-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/903630\/","title":{"rendered":"Belleville Police involved in Old East Hill shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gunfire erupted in east end Belleville Sunday about 7 p.m. with close to two dozens shots fired between at least two suspects and Belleville Police near the Sons of Jacob Synagogue on Victoria Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intersection of Victoria and Bleecker Ave has been cordoned off by police. The public is being asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Multiple police cruisers, including the tactical unit, and ambulances remain on seen. One ambulance left the scene headed for Belleville General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the Belleville Police Service tactical unit arrived on seen around 7:30 p.m. A BPS armoured truck also attended, parking at the intersection of Bleecker and Victoria Avenues.<br \/>Silouettes of tactical officers sweeping the interrior of the Synagogue could be seen from the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A police drone could also be seen scanning overhead throughout Old East Hill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neighbours said they heard what sounded like gunshots ring out at the Synagogue about 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One woman, who lives adjacent the Synagogue said she was scared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other bystanders said they thought fireworks were going off even though there was still daylight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several people say they heard anywhere from 20 to 22 handgun, shotgun,  and rifle shots ring out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This story will be updated when more information from police is available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gunfire erupted in east end Belleville Sunday about 7 p.m. with close to two dozens shots fired between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[312548,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-903630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-belleville-police-service","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903630","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=903630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}