{"id":825756,"date":"2026-08-25T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825756\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:52:09","slug":"cougar-euthanized-near-wilkes-elementary-in-gresham-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825756\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar euthanized near Wilkes Elementary in Gresham, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRESHAM, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 A cougar recently spotted in Gresham was located and euthanized, police confirmed to KATU.<\/p>\n<p>PAST COVERAGE |<a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/cougar-spotted-in-gresham-wilkes-neighborhood-call-911-if-seen-oregon-stat-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Cougar spotted in Gresham; call 911 if seen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman Tommy Walker said in an email that officers found the injured cougar behind Wilkes Elementary School early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Walker said police confirmed the cougar was injured before it was euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>Police first notified the media about the cougar in a news release Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRESHAM, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 A cougar recently spotted in Gresham was located and euthanized, police confirmed to KATU.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-825756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825756","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=825756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}