{"id":113616,"date":"2025-11-02T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113616\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T06:14:08","slug":"armed-police-respond-after-person-falls-from-wellington-balcony-gunshots-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113616\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police respond after person falls from Wellington balcony, gunshots reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4LR8FEF_Armed_police_officer_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"663\" alt=\"no caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nArmed officers were sent to an apartment in Brooklyn Road, Wellington after reports of a gunshot.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating, after a person fell from a balcony at an apartment complex on Brooklyn Road in Wellington on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene at about 3.35pm and the person was taken to hospital with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported hearing what they believed was a gunshot before the fall, but police said that information had not been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Armed officers were sent to the area as a precaution and inquiries continue to determine the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed officers were sent to an apartment in Brooklyn Road, Wellington after reports of a gunshot. Photo: RNZ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-113616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}