{"id":1021246,"date":"2026-08-24T15:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:43:13","slug":"robbery-turns-into-shooting-near-santa-monica-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021246\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbery turns into shooting near Santa Monica pier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A person was shot Sunday evening near the Santa Monica pier after an attempted robbery, police said. <\/p>\n<p>A group of people approached the victim around 7:50 p.m. and tried to rob them. The attempted robbery turned into an altercation, and someone pulled out a gun and shot the victim in the leg, the Santa Monica Police Department said in a statement a few hours later. <\/p>\n<p>The group of people who had attempted the robbery ran away. <\/p>\n<p>Officers treated the victim until they could be taken to a hospital with injuries that police said weren\u2019t life-threatening. Police said they are trying to identify and locate the people involved in the robbery-turned-shooting. <\/p>\n<p>Santa Monica in 2025 saw an overall decline of more than 12% in violent crime and burglaries, compared to 2024, according to the department\u2019s <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.santamonica.gov\/blog\/2025-annual-crime-report-operational-shift-and-measurable-outcomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">annual report<\/a>, released in March. Robberies fell 24% year over year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was shot Sunday evening near the Santa Monica pier after an attempted robbery, police said. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1021247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,88047,5169,19176,2961,224,2444,5337,3250,3546,7207,7272,72612,15289,101,11004,207490,7307,19289],"class_list":["post-1021246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-few-hour","tag-group","tag-injury","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-march","tag-people","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-santa-monica-pier","tag-santa-monica-police-department","tag-shooting","tag-statement","tag-sunday-evening","tag-victim","tag-violent-crime"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117151256203716156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}