{"id":13784,"date":"2025-10-20T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/13784\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:51:09","slug":"jd-vances-motorcade-hit-by-shrapnel-from-california-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/13784\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance&#8217;s motorcade hit by shrapnel from California military exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">An artillery shell struck part of Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/jd-vance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JD Vance<\/a>&#8216;s protective detail during a live-fire display marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/marine-corps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Corps<\/a> 250th anniversary in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> over the weekend, according to new reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">A 155mm round, fired at 1:46 p.m. on Saturday, detonated early and fragments hit a California Highway Patrol vehicle and a motorcycle traveling with the vice-president, according to a patrol report cited by The New York Times. The highway was cleared and reopened little over a half hour later, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">California Governor Gavin Newsom had called the White House<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/newsom-reacts-shell-detonation-military-exercise-vance-visit-10903422\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;reckless&#8221; for going ahead with the display<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">He wrote in a message posted to X Sunday: &#8220;We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn\u2019t be so reckless with people\u2019s lives for their vanity projects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This is a breaking story. Updates to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"10903984\" alt=\"\" caption=\"Vice President JD Vance, center participates in a briefing during an amphibious capabilities demonstration on Red Beach at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, as part of the Marine Corps' 250th anniversary celebrations.\" credit=\"Oliver Contreras\/Pool Photo via AP\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25291745462940-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An artillery shell struck part of Vice President JD Vance&#8216;s protective detail during a live-fire display marking the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,6500,8048],"class_list":{"0":"post-13784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-jd-vance","12":"tag-marine-corps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","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=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}