{"id":64114,"date":"2025-04-30T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64114\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T23:01:11","slug":"man-shot-by-police-after-stand-off-in-portishead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64114\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot by police after stand-off in Portishead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed police and negotiators were sent to a property<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0_AD_30-04-2025_merlinparkJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Merlin Park, Portishead.\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Merlin Park, Portishead.(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A police firearm was discharged as armed police and negotiators were at a stand-off with a man inside a property in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/portishead\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Portishead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">At 3.45pm this afternoon (Wednesday, April 30), <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/avon-and-somerset-constabulary\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Avon and Somerset Police<\/a> were called to Merlin Park, in Portishead to check on the welfare of a man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Armed officers were deployed due to the mention of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Negotiators attempted to engage with a man inside a property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sometime later a police firearm was discharged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The man was taken to hospital to receive treatment for an injury to his hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It is not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">No officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A cordon remains in place while enquiries are ongoing, but there is not believed to be any wider risk to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police and negotiators were sent to a propertyMerlin Park, Portishead.(Image: Google Maps) A police firearm was discharged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,381,748,393,4884,11945,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-64114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-portishead","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114429406961033117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64114","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=64114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}