{"id":29588,"date":"2025-05-24T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T10:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-due-in-court-following-bangor-gun-incident\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T10:12:33","slug":"man-due-in-court-following-bangor-gun-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-due-in-court-following-bangor-gun-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Man due in court following Bangor gun incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A 45-year-old man has been charged following an incident involving a gun in Bangor last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Shots were fired by specialist police teams after reports of a man with a firearm on the city&#8217;s High Street at about 21:30 BST on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">On Saturday, police confirmed a man has been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and assault on police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He is due to appear before Newtownards Magistrates&#8217; Court later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Videos which circulated on social media showed armed police confronting an individual along with the sound of gunshots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">High Street was closed overnight on Sunday, and reopened on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said one person was taken to the Ulster Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">They said they received a 999 call at 21:57 on Sunday, and sent two emergency crews and a rapid response paramedic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c991m3rxl33o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 45-year-old man has been charged following an incident involving a gun in Bangor last weekend. Shots were fired by specialist police teams after reports of a man with a firearm on the city&#8217;s High Street at about 21:30 BST on Sunday evening. On Saturday, police confirmed a man has been charged with possession of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7878,595,866,6746,3496,417],"class_list":["post-29588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-bangor","tag-court","tag-due","tag-gun","tag-incident","tag-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29588","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=29588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29590,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29588\/revisions\/29590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}