{"id":149000,"date":"2018-01-26T00:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T05:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149000"},"modified":"2018-01-26T00:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T05:24:25","slug":"brothers-death-prompts-cancellation-of-big-freedias-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/26\/brothers-death-prompts-cancellation-of-big-freedias-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother&#8217;s death prompts cancellation of Big Freedia&#8217;s shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_149001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149001\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/600px-Big_Freedia_2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149001\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/600px-Big_Freedia_2014.jpg\" alt=\"Big Freedia in 2014 (Photo By kowarski - https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kowarski\/14029142805, CC BY 2.0\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/600px-Big_Freedia_2014.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/600px-Big_Freedia_2014-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Freedia in 2014 (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=32417874\">Photo By kowarski &#8211; https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kowarski\/14029142805, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8212; Bounce artist Big Freedia has cancelled her shows this weekend after her younger brother was shot and killed in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Freedia, in a statement, said her brother &#8212; 35-year-old Adam Ross &#8212; was killed \u201cin a senseless act of violence\u201d and would be cancelling her shows scheduled Jan. 26 through Jan. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Police reported the shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Wednesday in New Orleans&#8217; Central City neighbourhood. Police said officers responded to a call of aggravated battery by shooting and found the victim unresponsive on the sidewalk and \u201csuffering from a gunshot wound to the head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Orleans Parish Coroner&#8217;s Office confirmed Ross&#8217; identity Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, but investigators say they&#8217;re gathering evidence to identify a suspect and motive.<\/p>\n<p>Freedia&#8217;s hit reality docu-series, Big Freedia Bounces Back, is in its sixth season on Fuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS &#8212; Bounce artist Big Freedia has cancelled her shows this weekend after her younger brother was shot and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":149001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[44799],"class_list":["post-149000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-big-freedia","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}