{"id":631435,"date":"2026-06-10T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631435\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:14:09","slug":"leicestershire-shooting-live-gun-fired-into-car-as-police-flood-village-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631435\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicestershire shooting live: Gun &#8216;fired into car&#8217; as police flood village street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Leicestershire Police say they believe the shooting is linked to a firearms discharge at a property in Cort Crescent, Braunstone last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life in connection with that incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Detective Inspector Louise Rooke, from the Complex Investigation Team (CIT), said: &#8220;I am aware that we issued information that we are investigating a firearms discharge at a property in Cort Crescent, Braunstone last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;At this stage, we do believe that these two incidents are linked. As part of our investigation into that incident, a 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life and remains in police custody.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicestershire Police say they believe the shooting is linked to a firearms discharge at a property in Cort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[390,59,57,58,151307,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-breaking-news","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-leicestershire-police","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631435","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=631435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}