{"id":114040,"date":"2025-11-02T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/114040\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T12:51:08","slug":"armed-police-at-wellington-apartments-after-person-falls-from-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/114040\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed police at Wellington apartments after person falls from balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Armed police were at the scene of a serious incident in Wellington this afternoon after a person fell from an apartment balcony amid reports of gunfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said one person sustained moderate injuries after falling from a balcony at an apartment complex in Brooklyn Rd, Wellington this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Emergency services were called to the complex at 3.35pm,&#8221; police told 1News in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Initial information provided by witnesses suggested that a gunshot had possibly been heard prior to the person falling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;This is as yet unsubstantiated but armed officers were in attendance as a precaution.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police were at the scene of a serious incident in Wellington this afternoon after a person fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-114040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114040","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=114040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}