{"id":18487,"date":"2024-11-23T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T11:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18487"},"modified":"2024-11-23T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T11:27:22","slug":"murder-arrest-after-man-shot-dead-in-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18487","title":{"rendered":"Murder arrest after man shot dead in city"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another man was shot dead in Birmingham. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The man, in his 20s, was found dead in a car after police were called to Rotton Park Road, near the junction with City Road in Edgbaston, just before 23:00 GMT on Friday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A second man, in his 30s, was found injured at a bus stop and taken to hospital where he remains in a critical condition, West Midlands Police added.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The arrested man, in his 30s, remains in custody while officers and road closures remain at the scene.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Det Insp Nick Barnes said: &#8220;This is a tragic incident, and we have worked through the night to understand exactly what happened.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve already made good progress and arrested a suspect, but I still need to hear from anyone who was in the area that we\u2019ve not already spoken to.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Anyone with dashcam footage or mobile phone footage from the area at the time is being urged to contact the force.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;We really need to hear from you so that we can build as clear a picture as possible of what happened,\u201d he added.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy87menepe9o\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another man was shot dead in Birmingham. The man, in his 20s, was found dead in a car after police were called to Rotton Park Road, near the junction with City Road in Edgbaston, just before 23:00 GMT on Friday. A second man, in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}