{"id":67602,"date":"2018-08-30T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67602"},"modified":"2018-08-26T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T02:11:10","slug":"a-good-knight-with-a-shining-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67602","title":{"rendered":"A Good Knight With A Shining Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KLBKNews\/posts\/a-man-with-a-gun-and-a-concealed-carry-permit-stopped-a-carjacking-in-littlefiel\/2020539554625929\/\">Armed citizen rescues a couple and a child from a would-be carjacker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LITTLEFIELD, Texas &#8211; Littlefield Police said a man with a gun and a concealed carry permit was able to stop a violent carjacking Thursday afternoon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Police arrested Ruben Garcia Lopez, 25, for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, assault, terroristic threat and resisting arrest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Littlefield Police were called to the 900 block of West 4th Street Thursday afternoon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A police statement said, \u201cA male subject was armed with a knife [and] was assaulting a female and trying to take her car.\u201d Police said Lopez also assaulted the woman\u2019s boyfriend. Her kids\u00a0were in the car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Police quoted Lopez as saying, \u201cThis was his (expletive) car\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEven though she was being assaulted; the woman was trying to get her kids out of the car,\u201d police said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA neighbor arrived at his home, saw the attack in progress, and armed himself with his handgun. He has a concealed handgun permit,\u201d police said. \u201cHe came to the aid of the victims and pointed his weapon at the attacker.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Lopez then moved away from the car and went across the street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>When police arrived, \u201c\u2026 the attacker dropped the knife and attacked the officer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More, faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed citizen rescues a couple and a child from a would-be carjacker: LITTLEFIELD, Texas &#8211; Littlefield Police said a man with a gun and a concealed carry permit was able to stop a violent carjacking Thursday afternoon. Police arrested Ruben Garcia Lopez, 25, for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, assault, terroristic threat and resisting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[346],"class_list":["post-67602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67806,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67602\/revisions\/67806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}