{"id":69826,"date":"2026-03-24T08:04:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/us-park-police-officer-wounded-in-ambush-shooting-in-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:04:49","slug":"us-park-police-officer-wounded-in-ambush-shooting-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/us-park-police-officer-wounded-in-ambush-shooting-in-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"US park police officer wounded in \u2018ambush\u2019 shooting in Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Park police chief says officer was \u2018ambushed\u2019 by two gunmen who fired as officer drove in unmarked vehicle<\/p>\n<p>A US park police officer was seriously wounded Monday evening in a shooting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/washington-dc\">Washington DC<\/a> in what the park police chief called an ambush.<\/p>\n<p>Park police chief Scott Brecht said in a press briefing that the unidentified officer was \u201cambushed\u201d by two gunmen who fired at the officer as he drove by in an unmarked vehicle. The officer was working on a park police investigation when he was shot. The chief declined to give specifics of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/24\/park-police-officer-shooting-washington-dc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park police chief says officer was \u2018ambushed\u2019 by two gunmen who fired as officer drove in unmarked vehicle A US park police officer was seriously wounded Monday evening in a shooting in Washington DC in what the park police chief called an ambush. Park police chief Scott Brecht said in a press briefing that the &#8230; <a title=\"US park police officer wounded in \u2018ambush\u2019 shooting in Washington DC\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/us-park-police-officer-wounded-in-ambush-shooting-in-washington-dc\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US park police officer wounded in \u2018ambush\u2019 shooting in Washington DC\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}