{"id":259627,"date":"2025-09-27T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259627\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:56:10","slug":"targeted-incident-dog-shot-dead-on-central-nanaimo-street-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/259627\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Targeted incident:\u2019 dog shot dead on central Nanaimo street | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/d2ksr9467jthww.cloudfront.net\/20250927180944\/ca5ded47041bf3c7168e0b29d23f5ab02256cae414bc3d6.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Investigators block off an area near the Rosehill St.\/Holly Ave. intersection on Saturday morning, after a dog was shot dead. (Kyle Ireland\/NanaimoNewsNOW)<\/p>\n<p>By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff<\/p>\n<p>fatal shooting<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSep 27, 2025 | 11:45 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO \u2014 Investigators are looking into the circumstances behind the fatal shooting of a dog.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to an area near the Holly Ave. and Rosehill St. intersection just before 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27 after reports came in of shots being fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers got on scene pretty quick and a dog was found shot and was dead on scene,\u201d Reserve Cst. Gary O\u2019Brien told NanaimoNewsNOW. \u201cNo individuals were shot, the suspect is at large and we don\u2019t know the motive behind it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien said it appears to be a \u201ctargeted incident\u201d but they\u2019re unsure who is responsible at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators block off an area near the Rosehill St.\/Holly Ave. intersection on Saturday morning, after a dog was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":259628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[104,2147,23406,23401,23407,23400,23402,23403,50,18010,23404,23405,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-259627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-central-vancouver-island","11":"tag-nanaimo","12":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","13":"tag-nanaimo-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","15":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-oceanside","18":"tag-parksville","19":"tag-qualicum","20":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115278262073213648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259627","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=259627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}