{"id":6659,"date":"2025-10-17T17:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6659\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:30:12","slug":"wikipedia-conference-disrupted-by-gun-threat-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6659\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Conference Disrupted by Gun Threat in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">A man attending Wikipedia\u2019s annual conference in Manhattan was arrested Friday after brandishing a loaded revolver and threatening suicide inside a Union Square office building, prompting a brief active shooter alert and swift intervention by event staff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The incident unfolded at Civic Hall, a tech and innovation hub housed in Zero Irving, where the WikiConference North America was underway. No shots were fired, and police said the man was taken into custody without further incident.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"10897380\" alt=\"\" caption=\"Illustration of the Wikipedia the free encyclopedia website application, Paris, France, January 24, 2025. Wikipedia is a collaborative, multilingual online encyclopedia created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in January 2001. (Photo by Riccardo Milani \/ Hans Lucas \/ Hans Lucas via AFP) (Photo by RICCARDO MILANI\/Hans Lucas\/AFP via Getty Images)\" credit=\"\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3877\" height=\"2585\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2195020177.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This story is breaking. More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man attending Wikipedia\u2019s annual conference in Manhattan was arrested Friday after brandishing a loaded revolver and threatening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4022,5126,9,56,63,65,64,5993],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-breaking-news","tag-gun","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-shooter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}