{"id":23495,"date":"2024-01-23T00:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T05:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=23495"},"modified":"2024-01-23T05:06:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:06:51","slug":"police-man-injured-after-accidental-gun-discharge-at-brick-costco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/01\/police-man-injured-after-accidental-gun-discharge-at-brick-costco\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Man Injured After Accidental Gun Discharge at Brick Costco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23496\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23496\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Bullet (Credit: William Hook\/ Creative Commons)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bullet (Credit: William Hook\/ Creative Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick police confirmed reports that a firearm was accidentally discharged in the township\u2019s Costco supermarket Sunday, though the injuries sustained to the person who mistakenly fired the weapon are not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at about 1 p.m. Sunday at the Costco store located at 465 Route 70.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe owner of the firearm sustained a non-life threatening injury,\u201d police said. \u201cThe incident is under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the person who discharged the weapon \u2013 whose name was not divulged \u2013 was legally licensed to carry it. Witnesses who posted accounts to social media said they heard the gunshot, and a shell casing landed on the ground of the warehouse store, though no customers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Shorebeat will follow up with authorities and report more details when they emerge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/01\/police-man-injured-after-accidental-gun-discharge-at-brick-costco\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick police confirmed reports that a firearm was accidentally discharged in the township\u2019s Costco supermarket Sunday, though the injuries sustained to the person who mistakenly fired the weapon are not life-threatening. The incident occurred at about 1 p.m. Sunday at the Costco store located at 465 Route 70. \u201cThe owner of the firearm sustained a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,609,4484,5124,1395],"class_list":["post-23495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-costco","tag-featured","tag-firearm-discharge","tag-shooting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1506578592_58fafe89cb_k.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-66X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}