{"id":9432,"date":"2024-01-05T18:32:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T23:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=9432"},"modified":"2024-01-05T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T23:32:59","slug":"gunfire-at-toms-river-police-hq-was-result-of-self-inflicted-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2024\/01\/gunfire-at-toms-river-police-hq-was-result-of-self-inflicted-wound\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire at Toms River Police HQ Was Result of Self-Inflicted Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toms River police said they rendered aid to a man found shot in the parking lot of police headquarters Friday, but he ultimately succumbed to his wounds.<\/p>\n

In a short statement, the department said officers discovered a male with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the parking lot of police headquarters on Oak Avenue. The discovery was made at about 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers immediately rendered aid, and he was transported to Community Medical Center by Silverton First Aid where he was pronounced,\u201d police spokeswoman Jillian Messina said. \u201cThe investigation is on-going at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police rarely comment publicly on incidents in which people take their own lives, however such short explanations are provided when an incident occurs in a public place, drawing attention, in order to prevent rumors or misinformation from spreading.<\/p>\n

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Toms River police said they rendered aid to a man found shot in the parking lot of police headquarters Friday, but he ultimately succumbed to his wounds. In a short statement, the department said officers discovered a male with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the parking lot of police headquarters on Oak Avenue. The discovery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1080,1889,536,11],"class_list":["post-9432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-featured","tag-police-headquarters","tag-shooting","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\/9432","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=9432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/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=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}