{"id":222361,"date":"2026-03-16T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222361\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:36:07","slug":"shooting-at-santa-monica-pier-leaves-two-people-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/222361\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting at Santa Monica Pier leaves two people wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gunfire during a large fight at the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday night sent people running, according to police and media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Around 9 p.m., the Santa Monica Police Department responded to a report of shots fired at the pier, according to a Police Department news release. <\/p>\n<p>There were no details on what prompted the fight but authorities say two people were wounded after gunfire broke out during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told local news outlets that the shots sent people scattering as police rushed to the area. The pier was temporarily closed as authorities investigated the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The two people wounded were expected to survive, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Both of the victims were adults. <\/p>\n<p>The incident appeared to be isolated and related to two groups involved in the fight, according to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/2-injured-shooting-after-fight-santa-monica-pier-police-say\/3861711\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBC Los Angeles<\/a>, citing police. <\/p>\n<p>No other information was available about the shooters, including the number of people involved. <\/p>\n<p>Santa Monica police officials did not immediately respond to a request for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gunfire during a large fight at the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday night sent people running, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15560,6577,7,9,8,20694,4456,101565,70909,63,75301,592,236,58156,101566,5250,856,9138],"class_list":["post-222361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-adult","tag-authority","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-gunfire","tag-incident","tag-large-fight","tag-local-news-outlet","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-medium-report","tag-people","tag-police","tag-santa-monica-pier","tag-santa-monica-police-department","tag-shot","tag-sunday-night","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222361","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=222361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}