{"id":562116,"date":"2026-08-07T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562116\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:10:18","slug":"man-in-custody-after-alleged-gunshots-in-stratford-schools-locked-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562116\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody after alleged gunshots in Stratford, schools locked down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been taken into police custody after reports of a gun being fired in the Taranaki town of Stratford this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Oberon St at around 9am after a report of a person in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is believed the firearm was allegedly discharged. There are no reports of injuries,&#8221; Inspector Mark Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Several schools and premises in the area were placed into lockdown as a precaution, with cordons in place as police made inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>Miller said an alleged offender had since been located and charges were being considered.<\/p>\n<p>Stratford High School and Taranaki Diocesan for Girls, Little Steps Stratford and Koru Kindergarden all went into lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been taken into police custody after reports of a gun being fired in the Taranaki&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,16715],"class_list":["post-562116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-taranaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562116","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=562116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}