{"id":442105,"date":"2026-08-24T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442105\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:42:08","slug":"robbery-turns-into-shooting-near-santa-monica-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442105\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbery turns into shooting near Santa Monica Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A person was shot Sunday evening near the Santa Monica pier after an attempted robbery, police said. <\/p>\n<p>A group of people approached the victim around 7:50 p.m. and tried to rob them. The attempted robbery turned into an altercation, and someone pulled out a gun and shot the victim in the leg, the Santa Monica Police Department said in a statement a few hours later. <\/p>\n<p>The group of people who had attempted the robbery ran away. <\/p>\n<p>Officers treated the victim until they could be taken to a hospital with injuries that police said weren\u2019t life-threatening. Police said they are trying to identify and locate the people involved in the robbery-turned-shooting. <\/p>\n<p>Santa Monica in 2025 saw an overall decline of more than 12% in violent crime and burglaries, compared to 2024, according to the department\u2019s <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.santamonica.gov\/blog\/2025-annual-crime-report-operational-shift-and-measurable-outcomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">annual report<\/a>, released in March. Robberies fell 24% year over year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was shot Sunday evening near the Santa Monica pier after an attempted robbery, police said. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[101347,7244,349,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,2959,592,236,2480,58156,101566,135,3025,25565,2601,13464],"class_list":["post-442105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-few-hour","tag-group","tag-injury","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-march","tag-people","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-santa-monica-pier","tag-santa-monica-police-department","tag-shooting","tag-statement","tag-sunday-evening","tag-victim","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442105","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=442105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}