{"id":187349,"date":"2026-05-08T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187349\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:34:07","slug":"man-arrested-in-connection-with-april-shooting-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187349\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in connection with April shooting in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 Police in Scranton say a suspect has been arrested in connection with a shooting that left a man injured last month.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Scranton Police Department, 21-year-old Nymere Canada has been taken into custody following an investigation into a shooting reported April 7 in the 900 block of Clay Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were initially called to the scene after reports of gunfire and found a victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg. The victim was taken to Geisinger Community Medical Center for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they were able to identify Canada as a suspect through witness interviews and surveillance footage.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Canada was arrested May 6 at the Luzerne County Probation Office on an outstanding warrant without incident.<\/p>\n<p>He is now facing several charges, including aggravated assault, firearms violations, reckless endangerment, and simple assault.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a preliminary hearing is scheduled later this month in Lackawanna County Central Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Police in Scranton say a suspect has been arrested in connection with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-187349","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\/187349","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=187349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}