{"id":236104,"date":"2026-01-16T09:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236104\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:08:14","slug":"teen-in-court-over-christmas-day-shooting-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236104\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen in court over Christmas Day shooting in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested a 17-year-old after a person was shot on Christmas Day in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>Police received reports of a man being chased by a group, including a person armed with a gun, just after 6.30pm on December 25.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Luke Vaughan said a person was later taken to hospital with a suspected gunshot wound, which was not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>He said a 17-year-old man was arrested on Thursday and charged with wounding with reckless disregard for the safety of others, among other charges.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to appear in the Christchurch Youth Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police are not looking for anyone else in relation to this incident.<\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old man is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/star-news\/star-christchurch\/police-seek-witnesses-christmas-day-shooting-hornby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">already before the courts following the incident, facing charges<\/a>\u00a0including presenting a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>-RNZ and Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have arrested a 17-year-old after a person was shot on Christmas Day in Christchurch. Police received reports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-236104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236104","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=236104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}