{"id":187300,"date":"2026-05-08T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187300\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:29:30","slug":"man-charged-in-connection-with-scranton-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187300\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged in connection with Scranton shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nymere Canada faces several charges, including aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, and simple assault.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Police have charged a man in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/one-injured-shooting-scranton-lackawanna-county-clay-avenue\/523-b4f335c4-1046-42a7-b99f-5e765521fb3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">shooting in Scranton last month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities say a 23-year-old man was shot in the leg at a home along the 900 block of Clay Avenue on April 7.<\/p>\n<p>Police now believe Nymere Canada, 21, is responsible for the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Canada was taken into custody on Wednesday and faces charges of aggravated assault, firearms not to be carried without a license, recklessly endangering another person, and simple assault.<\/p>\n<p>He is due back in court for a preliminary hearing later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nymere Canada faces several charges, including aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, and simple assault. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-187300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}