{"id":7241,"date":"2025-06-23T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/7241\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:48:09","slug":"jacob-john-dwyer-jailed-for-seven-and-a-half-years-for-shooting-death-of-james-deering-in-wooroloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/7241\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob John Dwyer jailed for seven-and-a-half years for shooting death of James Deering in Wooroloo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man who shot dead a father-of-two in an incident that triggered an emergency lockdown in Perth&#8217;s east has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Jacob John Dwyer, who is now 37, shot James Peter Deering in Wooroloo in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man and his two kids and wife pose for a photo on a couch\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fb398472aa37c66c286d8c4bdd89dc95\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">James Deering was fatally shot in Wooroloo in November 2023. (GoFundMe: Laura Doubleview)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The incident forced the area into lockdown for several hours, as police searched for those they believed were linked to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Residents were asked to stay inside and to keep their doors locked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Dwyer was sentenced in Perth&#8217;s Supreme Court on Monday and will be made eligible for parole after serving five-and-a-half-years of his term \u2014 which was backdated to November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who shot dead a father-of-two in an incident that triggered an emergency lockdown in Perth&#8217;s east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,8635,8636,8638,50,8634,8631,8633,8632,8639,8637],"class_list":{"0":"post-7241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-jacob-john-dwyer","10":"tag-james-peter-deering","11":"tag-manslaughter","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-perth-courts","14":"tag-perth-news","15":"tag-wa-courts","16":"tag-wa-news","17":"tag-wooroloo-lockdown","18":"tag-wooroloo-shooting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114731109955191148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","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=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}