{"id":423004,"date":"2026-04-29T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423004\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:48:10","slug":"gardai-probe-report-child-fired-gun-dropped-by-armed-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423004\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed probe report child fired gun dropped by armed suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed are investigating reports that a child fired a gun after it was dropped by an armed suspect trying to evade arrest.<\/p>\n<p>At least one male was being pursued by garda\u00ed in north Dublin when a weapon was discarded, the Irish Examiner understands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A child then got hold of the discarded firearm and discharged it, it is understood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But another person who was in the area then reportedly took the gun from the child and fled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two males &#8211; a man in his 20s and juvenile in his teens &#8211; have been arrested and garda\u00ed are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Garda\u00ed responded to reports of a firearm incident in Ballymun, Dublin 9, today at approximately 3pm,&#8221; a statement from Garda Headquarters said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Garda\u00ed arrested two males, one in his 20s, and a juvenile in his teens, who are currently detained under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939 in a Garda Station in the Dublin region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There were no reports of injuries in relation to this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed are investigating reports that a child fired a gun after it was dropped by an armed suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1111,61,60,43,1112],"class_list":["post-423004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-court-and-crime","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-politics-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}