{"id":904046,"date":"2026-09-21T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904046\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:56:13","slug":"ontarios-siu-tapped-for-belleville-incident-near-local-synagogue-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/904046\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s SIU tapped for Belleville incident near local Synagogue \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A peaceful Sunday night in Belleville, Ontario, was shattered by reports of multiple gunshots, followed by local police issuing a tight-lipped statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Belleville Police Service posted a media release on Facebook saying that around 7:10 p.m., near Bleecker Avenue and Victoria Avenue, in a mostly residential area, an officer encountered an individual.<\/p>\n<p>They say that during an interaction, both the officer and the individual were injured and taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab09ef474ebe8a78e622cc5jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"5472\" data-pswp-height=\"3648\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab09ef474ebe8a78e622cc5jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Police tape is shown at a crime scene in Calgary, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPolice tape is shown at a crime scene in Calgary, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s Special Investigations Unit has been notified, and police say no further comment is coming at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The incident appears to have unfolded near the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, during a gathering to mark Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Doug Ford responded on X, saying that he was \u201cdisgusted by the shooting\u201d and stands with the Jewish community in Belleville and across Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 20, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A peaceful Sunday night in Belleville, Ontario, was shattered by reports of multiple gunshots, followed by local police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-904046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904046","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=904046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}