{"id":628077,"date":"2026-10-12T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628077\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T07:38:08","slug":"man-hospitalised-after-firearms-incident-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628077\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hospitalised after firearms incident in Christchurch"},"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]\">A man has been hospitalised following a firearms incident in the Christchurch suburb of Shirley this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to an incident near the intersection of Marshland Rd and Hercules St at around 3pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Senior Sergeant Christopher Wakelin said a man had been taken to hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;While police are conducting initial inquiries into the incident, we do not believe there is any threat to public safety at this stage,&#8221; Wakelin said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Hato Hone St John said an ambulance, an operations manager and a rapid response unit attended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Ambulance staff treated one patient at the scene and transported them to Christchurch Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Inquiries into the circumstances of the incident were ongoing, police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been hospitalised following a firearms incident in the Christchurch suburb of Shirley this afternoon. Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-628077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628077","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=628077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}