{"id":724885,"date":"2026-08-02T20:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724885\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T20:07:11","slug":"two-arrests-after-man-shot-dead-at-cricklade-traveller-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/724885\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrests after man shot dead at Cricklade traveller site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two people have been arrested after a man was shot dead at a traveller site, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victim, who is in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene in Calcutt, near Cricklade, at about 08:15 BST, Wiltshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said a man in his 70s and a woman in her 40s had been arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm and assisting an offender. They remain in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Ch Insp Phil Walker, from Wiltshire Police&#8217;s Major Crime Investigation Team, said a murder investigation was under way and inquiries were ongoing &#8220;to establish the circumstances which have led to this incident and locate all the people involved&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been arrested after a man was shot dead at a traveller site, police have said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","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\/724885","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=724885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}