{"id":345882,"date":"2025-08-15T06:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345882\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T06:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:45:25","slug":"man-charged-with-attempted-murder-and-possession-of-gun-after-shooting-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345882\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with attempted murder and possession of gun after &#8216;shooting&#8217; in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man has been charged with attempted murder after a 23-year-old was allegedly shot in Edinburgh. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Armed police were called to the Hailesland Gardens area following reports of a firearm being discharged around 3.40pm on July 24.<\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old man attended the hospital with a serious injury to his arm following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Police have now confirmed that a 25-year-old man has been charged in connection with attempted murder and possession of a gun.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to appear in court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with attempted murder after a 23-year-old was allegedly shot in Edinburgh. Armed police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-345882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345882","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=345882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}