{"id":115174,"date":"2025-11-03T06:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/115174\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:23:08","slug":"shot-fired-at-specific-person-in-wellington-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/115174\/","title":{"rendered":"Shot fired at specific person in Wellington apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An offender who fired a shotgun at a residential complex in Wellington yesterday &#8211; where a person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/11\/02\/armed-police-at-wellington-apartments-after-person-falls-from-balcony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fell from a balcony<\/a> &#8211; was targeting a specific person, police say. <\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Lee Underhill said officers were called to the Brooklyn Rd property about 3.30pm on November 2. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While nobody was hit, we believe the incident targeted a specific individual, who suffered moderate injuries fleeing to safety,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is concerning that an offender has discharged a firearm in a highly populated apartment building and we are aggressively pursuing every lead in order to locate the offender.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Underhill said it was &#8220;appalling violence that put a number of people at risk and could have had a very different outcome&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>He said there would be an increased police presence in the area and understood the offending would be &#8220;unsettling for the complex and nearby residents&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the offender or the incident was urged to contact police through 105, online or anonymously to Crime Stoppers on 0800 555<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An offender who fired a shotgun at a residential complex in Wellington yesterday &#8211; where a person fell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115175,"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-115174","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\/115174","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=115174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}