{"id":323473,"date":"2026-01-30T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323473"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:56:13","slug":"us-gun-violence-4-people-shot-2-killed-in-mount-airy-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323473","title":{"rendered":"US gun violence: 4 people shot, 2 killed in Mount Airy, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MOUNT AIRY (North Carolina, US), Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Four people were shot and at least two of those people were killed Thursday in Mount Airy, North Carolina, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers responded to the scene shortly after 2 p.m. local time, the Surry County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a statement. Two of the four people who were shot have died. The condition of the other two people is unclear. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Surry County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and the SBI are on the scene collecting evidence and investigating,&#8221; the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Welcome Baptist Church in Mount Airy said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/welcome.baptist.94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook post<\/a>&nbsp;that there was a shooting across the street from their building. The church said all of its members were safe and the shooting was not related to the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mount Airy is located in northwestern North Carolina, just minutes from the Virginia border. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT AIRY (North Carolina, US), Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Four people were shot and at least two of those people were killed Thursday in Mount Airy, North Carolina, authorities said.\u00a0 Officers responded to the scene shortly after 2 p.m. local time, the Surry County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a statement. Two of the four people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323473"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323474,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323473\/revisions\/323474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}