{"id":15073,"date":"2019-09-09T15:54:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15073"},"modified":"2019-09-09T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T14:54:46","slug":"quick-update-man-unintentionally-shot-himself-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/quick-update-man-unintentionally-shot-himself-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Update: Man &#8216;Unintentionally Shot Himself&#8217; In London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police have been lead to believe that a man who died in a south London street &#8220;unintentionally&#8221; shot himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old was found wounded in Sydenham Road in Sydenham at 15:45 BST on Sunday and died at the scene. Det Ch Insp Richard Leonard, of the Met Police, said officers believed &#8220;the man unintentionally discharged a firearm resulting in his fatal injury&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/660\/cpsprodpb\/C8C4\/production\/_108669315_hi056354420.jpg\" alt=\"Crime scene in Sydenham Road, south-east London, after a man in his twenties was found with gunshot wounds\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The man was pronounced dead in Sydenham Road on Sunday<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The police would not comment on reports he had fired at a car, causing a bullet to ricochet off the vehicle&#8217;s window.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s next of kin have been informed but he is yet to be formally identified. One man has been arrested in connection with the investigation and remains in custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have been lead to believe that a man who died in a south London street &#8220;unintentionally&#8221; shot himself. The 25-year-old was found wounded in Sydenham Road in Sydenham at 15:45 BST on Sunday and died at the scene. Det Ch Insp Richard Leonard, of the Met Police, said officers believed &#8220;the man unintentionally discharged&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":14355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1639,102,627,71,96,101,43],"class_list":["post-15073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-gun","tag-london","tag-london-crime","tag-news","tag-shooting","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15074,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15073\/revisions\/15074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}