{"id":14341,"date":"2022-08-01T16:40:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/breaking-news-police-close-heysham-street-after-reports-of-shots-fired\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:40:26","slug":"breaking-news-police-close-heysham-street-after-reports-of-shots-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=14341","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Police close Heysham Street after reports of shots fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"news-timestamp\">\n<p>                    Monday, August 1, 2022 5:20 p.m\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"news-author\">\n<p>                        By Greg Lambert<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/greglam72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n                                @greglam72<br \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"news-abstract\">\n<p>            Police are at the scene after reports of a gun being fired in a street in Heysham.\n        <\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness told Beyond Radio that she and her son heard a loud bang and then saw a man running down Sefton Road from the Heysham Road area with what appeared to be a rifle at around 4.15pm Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were driving along Heysham Road and there was this really loud noise,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was scaffolding falling off a building, but my son said it sounded like a gunshot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then we saw this person with a rifle, quite a large one, running towards Sefton Road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman confirmed there had been an incident involving a &#8220;discharge of firearms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There is a police cordon in the area.<\/p>\n<p>More to come. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondradio.co.uk\/news\/featured-stories\/breaking-news-police-seal-off-heysham-street-after-reports-of-gunfire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, August 1, 2022 5:20 p.m By Greg Lambert @greglam72 Police are at the scene after reports of a gun being fired in a street in Heysham. An eyewitness told Beyond Radio that she and her son heard a loud bang and then saw a man running down Sefton Road from the Heysham Road area with what appeared to be a rifle at around 4.15pm Monday. &#8220;We were driving along Heysham Road and there was this really loud noise,&#8221; he said. \u201cI thought it was scaffolding falling off a building, but my son said it sounded like a gunshot. &#8220;Then&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14343,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14341\/revisions\/14343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}