{"id":37010,"date":"2013-07-01T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=37010"},"modified":"2013-07-01T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:23:11","slug":"five-year-old-boy-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/07\/five-year-old-boy-shot","title":{"rendered":"Five-Year-Old Boy Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/07\/five-year-old-boy-shot-37010.html\/police-line\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37012\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37012\" title=\"police-line\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/police-line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/police-line.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/police-line-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/police-line-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>A five-year-old boy was shot in the chest while playing in his backyard on Milton Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Paul Rolle, officer-in-charge of the Central Detective Unit (CDU), said the boy was taken to hospital where he was listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>He said the victim and a seven-year-old boy were reportedly playing with a bicycle around 5:55 p.m. when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we know is that two boys were in the back of a yard playing with a bicycle when there were reports of gunshots,\u201d Rolle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mother ran outside and realized that the boy was suffering from a wound to the chest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said police are unsure who the shooter is or the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Inspector Chrislyn Skippings said the incident was disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for Bahamians to step up to the plate and take a zero tolerance approach and say enough is enough and report or hand over to police those persons who are in possession of firearms,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Travis Cartwright-Carroll<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Guardian Staff Reporter <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for Bahamians to step up to the plate and take a zero tolerance approach,&#8221;  police spokesperson Inspector Chrislyn Skippings said. &#8220;And report or hand over to police those persons who are in possession of firearms.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,1253,219],"class_list":["post-37010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-shooting","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}