{"id":18017,"date":"2024-11-28T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/young-man-seriously-hurt-after-being-shot-in-the-leg\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T15:11:40","slug":"young-man-seriously-hurt-after-being-shot-in-the-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/young-man-seriously-hurt-after-being-shot-in-the-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Young man seriously hurt after being shot in the leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A young man has suffered serious injuries after being shot in the leg in Londonderry. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Police said the 18-year-old was shot in the Springtown Road area of the city shortly after 22:10 GMT on Wednesday night.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The man told police he was walking to meet a friend in Creggan when he was followed by a number of people and attacked.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The police described the incident as a &#8220;deplorable act of violence&#8221; and appealed for anyone with information to come forward. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The SDLP MP for Foyle, Colum Eastwood, described it as &#8220;a brutal attack&#8221;. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"> \u201cThe people behind this brutal and totally brazen attack clearly didn\u2019t care about the safety of anyone in the area,&#8221; he added.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;There\u2019s no place for this in the city and no one wants it. These people need to give up and go away.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">He said anyone with information should give it to the police. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cjr4e2r1g4qo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man has suffered serious injuries after being shot in the leg in Londonderry. Police said the 18-year-old was shot in the Springtown Road area of the city shortly after 22:10 GMT on Wednesday night. The man told police he was walking to meet a friend in Creggan when he was followed by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[4497,1474,417,3027,506],"class_list":["post-18017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-hurt","tag-leg","tag-man","tag-shot","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18019,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18017\/revisions\/18019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}