{"id":29211,"date":"2019-05-16T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=29211"},"modified":"2019-05-16T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:09:33","slug":"shooting-in-belchers-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/16\/shooting-in-belchers-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting In Belchers Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a man was shot in the back and arm at the junction of Belchers Lane and Cotterills Lane in Alum Rock.<\/p>\n<p>A 21-year-old was gunned down on Wednesday 15 May around 11pm, he suffered 2 gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Forensic officers erected a tent and the area was cordoned off.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Jon Kiteley from force CID, said: \u201cWe are in the early stages of this investigation and asking anyone who was in the area at the time to get in touch with us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are keen to speak to anyone who has any information that could assist us in understanding the circumstances around this shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police via Live Chat at www.west-midlands.police.co.uk\u00a0 between 8am and midnight, or to call 101 anytime.<\/p>\n<p>Please quote crime reference 20BE\/115752C\/19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a man was shot in the back and arm at the junction of Belchers Lane and Cotterills Lane in Alum Rock. A 21-year-old was gunned down on Wednesday 15 May around 11pm, he suffered 2 gunshot wounds. Forensic officers erected a tent and the area was cordoned off. Inspector Jon Kiteley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}