{"id":3209,"date":"2019-07-11T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2019-07-11T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T17:05:09","slug":"cops-confirm-shots-fired-in-south-toms-river-neighborhood-no-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/07\/cops-confirm-shots-fired-in-south-toms-river-neighborhood-no-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops Confirm Shots Fired in South Toms River Neighborhood; No Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" width=\"756\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png 756w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-599x420.png 599w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-640x449.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-681x477.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Authorities have confirmed reports that gunshots were fired in a residential neighborhood in South Toms River Wednesday night, though there were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p>South Toms River Police were called to a residence on Charles Drive in South Toms River for a report of shots fired at about 7 p.m. South Toms River Police, the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department responded to the scene, a statement from the prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, no one was hurt even though this gunfire occurred in the middle of a residential neighborhood,\u201d said Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer. \u201cDetectives have been working through the night to determine who is responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several bullets and shell casings were recovered from the scene, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, South Toms River Police Department and the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department and the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department K-9 unit are currently investigating this incident. Anyone with information on this investigation is urged to contact the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office at 732-929-2027 or Detective Timothy Meier of the South Toms River Police Department at 732-349-0313, ext. 112.<\/p>\n<p>The South Toms River Police Department will have extra patrols in the area, officials said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2019\/07\/cops-confirm-shots-fired-in-south-toms-river-neighborhood-no-injuries\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have confirmed reports that gunshots were fired in a residential neighborhood in South Toms River Wednesday night, though there were no reported injuries. South Toms River Police were called to a residence on Charles Drive in South Toms River for a report of shots fired at about 7 p.m. South Toms River Police, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[860,712,11],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-shots-fired","tag-south-toms-river","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}