{"id":1037274,"date":"2026-06-19T18:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1037274\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:56:23","slug":"lodge-lane-live-updates-as-police-cordon-off-street-after-shots-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1037274\/","title":{"rendered":"Lodge Lane live updates as police cordon off street after shots fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Armed police were called to a caf\u00e9 on Lodge Lane in Toxteth around 5pm on Friday, June 19 following reports that several gunshots were heard inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The area remains cordoned off between Lime Grove and Bentley Road, with a number of officers in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">An Air Ambulance was also spotted hovering above the area and North West Ambulance Services has arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police said no-one was injured during the incident and following a search of the area several casings were found at the premises on Lodge Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police officers have been seen &#8220;heading in and out&#8221; of Bala.bs Soulfood Kitchen on Lodge Lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police were called to a caf\u00e9 on Lodge Lane in Toxteth around 5pm on Friday, June 19&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1037275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[188,274,12,33363,16,15],"class_list":["post-1037274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-crime","tag-merseyside-police","tag-news","tag-toxteth","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116778302635236077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}