{"id":570950,"date":"2026-05-07T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570950\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:31:08","slug":"gorton-school-lockdown-live-as-police-shut-down-academy-after-water-pistol-fired-at-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570950\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorton school lockdown LIVE as police shut down academy after &#8216;water pistol&#8217; fired at child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">An officer at the scene has told parents that a &#8216;water pistol&#8217; was fired at a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He said no injuries have been caused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He said it was &#8216;just two kids messing around with a water pellet gun&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He added that the message given to police was that there was a child &#8216;with a firearm&#8217;, which is why officers responded and the school was put in lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An officer at the scene has told parents that a &#8216;water pistol&#8217; was fired at a child. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,12763,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-gorton","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}