{"id":3688,"date":"2026-01-21T23:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:25:41","slug":"aurora-police-officer-fires-weapon-residents-urged-to-avoid-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"Aurora police officer fires weapon, residents urged to avoid area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A police officer opened fire in west suburban Aurora Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Few details were released about the shooting that happened around 1 p.m. in the 300 block of South Broadway. In a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AuroraPoliceIL\/posts\/pfbid07JMfEe2pVLLcC5G8kShn3UAnrjSzYNhe9z7hkLfYt3X8vvhw3oa65n513EhqH7udl\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">statement on social media<\/a>, Aurora police urged people to avoid the area while officers investigated a \u201ccriminal matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are on-scene with an officer-involved shooting. At this time there is no risk to the public. More details will be forthcoming,\u201d the department said in its statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2026\/01\/21\/aurora-police-officer-shooting\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer opened fire in west suburban Aurora Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities. Few details were released about the shooting that happened around 1 p.m. in the 300 block of South Broadway. In a statement on social media, Aurora police urged people to avoid the area while officers investigated a \u201ccriminal matter.\u201d \u201cWe are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}