{"id":111872,"date":"2025-12-29T02:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/111872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T02:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T02:21:13","slug":"man-critically-injured-in-chula-vista-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/111872\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critically injured in Chula Vista shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old man was critically wounded in a shooting outside a Chula Vista bar early Sunday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was discovered in the middle of a parking lot of a strip mall on E Street near Woodlawn Avenue after someone called 911 around 1:40 a.m. to report a shooting, Chula Vista police Lt. Matt Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>The man, a San Diego resident, suffered several gunshot wounds. He was rushed to a hospital and reported to be in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined the man was outside a bar with a group of people when he was shot, Sgt. Anthony Molina said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said investigators did not know what led up to the shooting but said it was believed the man was targeted.\u00a0\u201cIt does not appear a random act of violence,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released a description of the shooter and were trying to locate witnesses. They asked anyone with information about the shooting to contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdcrimestoppers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> online or by calling (888) 580-8477. Tipsters can remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old man was critically wounded in a shooting outside a Chula Vista bar early Sunday, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[138,181,23,100,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-111872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}