{"id":669903,"date":"2026-05-28T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669903\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:24:14","slug":"massachusetts-state-police-trooper-injured-in-accidental-discharge-of-weapon-in-acton-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669903\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts State Police Trooper injured in &#8216;accidental discharge&#8217; of weapon in Acton, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Massachusetts Police Department trooper was injured Wednesday night when his service weapon accidentally discharged, officials said.The incident happened at the department&#8217;s mounted unit barn in Acton.The trooper, who was not identified, was taken to Lahey Hospital in Burlington to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.The incident remains under investigation.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tACTON, Mass. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Massachusetts Police Department trooper was injured Wednesday night when his service weapon accidentally discharged, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at the department&#8217;s mounted unit barn in Acton.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper, who was not identified, was taken to Lahey Hospital in Burlington to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Massachusetts Police Department trooper was injured Wednesday night when his service weapon accidentally discharged, officials said.The incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[292408,129473,4,450,55670,10071,451,10072,10156,6270,292406,237274,213686,292407,3,9585,452,453,99145,34984,28123,82667,55320],"class_list":["post-669903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-accidental-discharge","tag-acton","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-burlington","tag-department","tag-headlines","tag-incident","tag-injury","tag-investigation","tag-lahey-hospital","tag-massachusetts-state-police","tag-massachusetts-state-police-trooper","tag-mounted-unit-barn","tag-news","tag-official","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-trooper","tag-unit","tag-wcvb","tag-weapon","tag-wednesday-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}