{"id":2831,"date":"2014-08-02T23:02:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T03:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2014-08-02T23:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T03:02:57","slug":"three-sides-of-a-shooting-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/three-sides-of-a-shooting-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"THREE SIDES OF A SHOOTING INCIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend and graduate from Chicago passes along this story: <a href=\"http:\/\/southtownstar.suntimes.com\/news\/kadner\/28958006-452\/kadner-concealed-carry-shooting-incident-raises-questions.html#.U92YF_n6N7s\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/southtownstar.suntimes.com\/news\/kadner\/28958006-452\/kadner-concealed-carry-shooting-incident-raises-questions.html#.U92YF_n6N7s<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>An as yet unidentified law-abiding citizen in his fifties (erroneously said to be 86 in early reports) fires two warning shots at a fleeing armed robber.\u00a0 A police officer chasing the same robber breaks off the pursuit and takes cover, thinking he\u2019s the one coming under fire.\u00a0 The suspect is captured anyway, and no one\u2019s blood is shed.<\/p>\n<p>In the story linked above, a retired detective calls the armed citizen an idiot for doing what he did, pointing out that among other things the officer could have shot him.\u00a0 But the investigating officers, and their department, and the prosecutor\u2019s office take the armed citizen\u2019s side and determine no charges will be brought.<\/p>\n<p>And now comes a third side of the story, that the citizen saw the robber run out of the store, saw the officer come around the other side of the building, and believed the robber was about to ambush and murder the cop.\u00a0 The citizen is said to have fired to break the ambush and save the officer.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story: wait for all sides\u2019 viewpoints to come in before forming an opinion on what happened.\u00a0 And there may be more information yet to come regarding this particular incident.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion invited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend and graduate from Chicago passes along this story: http:\/\/southtownstar.suntimes.com\/news\/kadner\/28958006-452\/kadner-concealed-carry-shooting-incident-raises-questions.html#.U92YF_n6N7s . An as yet unidentified law-abiding citizen in his fifties (erroneously said to be 86 in early reports) fires two warning shots at a fleeing armed robber.\u00a0 A police officer chasing the same robber breaks off the pursuit and takes cover, thinking he\u2019s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}