{"id":59904,"date":"2025-10-30T22:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=59904"},"modified":"2025-10-30T22:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:38:25","slug":"police-investigating-firearm-being-pointed-shot-at-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=59904","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating firearm being pointed, shot at vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56514&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EAST HANTS: <\/strong>RCMP in East Hants are investigating a firearms-related incident following a complaint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sgt. Scott MacRae, with East Hants RCMP, said that police received a report of a man known to the complainant who pointed a firearm at their vehicle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This happened in a parking lot and the person fired BB gun rounds at them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The suspect who is known to police and was on court conditions was located and arrested,&#8221; said Sgt. MacRae. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 19-year-old man is facing several recent charges including: Pointing a Firearm, Careless Use of a Firearm, Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose, and two counts of Failure to Comply with Undertaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST HANTS: RCMP in East Hants are investigating a firearms-related incident following a complaint. Sgt. Scott MacRae, with East Hants RCMP, said that police received a report of a man known to the complainant who pointed a firearm at their vehicle. This happened in a parking lot and the person fired BB gun rounds at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[9607,196,1682,14,979],"class_list":["post-59904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-bb-shots-fired","tag-east-hants","tag-firearms","tag-rcmp","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}