{"id":69738,"date":"2019-01-22T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69738"},"modified":"2019-02-08T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:18:00","slug":"a-good-guy-with-a-gun-and-one-lucky-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69738","title":{"rendered":"A Good Guy With A Gun &#8211; And One Lucky Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arizona man saves a state trooper&#8217;s life after an ambush on I-10 following a &#8220;shots fired&#8217; radio call that led the officer to a crashed car and a mortally-injured woman:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>[Arizona Department of Public Safety director Col. Frank Milstead] said as the trooper began blocking off lanes of traffic and laying out flares, he was ambushed by the suspect.<br> The suspect shot the trooper in the right shoulder, and was &#8220;getting the better of the trooper&#8221; in a fight that immediately followed.<br> Milstead said the suspect was on top of the trooper striking his head on the pavement.<br> According to Milstead, a man traveling westbound on I-10 with his wife in the car, pulled over to help the trooper.<br> The man retrieved a gun from his car and fired at the suspect after the suspect refused to stop attacking the trooper, Milstead said.<br> The suspect died as a result of the shooting and the man called for help using the trooper&#8217;s radio, according to Milstead.<br> In a news conference from the hospital where the trooper is being cared for, Milstead thanked the man who stopped to help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If Nancy Nord Bence had her way, they&#8217;d still be scraping the trooper&#8217;s brains off the pavement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona man saves a state trooper&#8217;s life after an ambush on I-10 following a &#8220;shots fired&#8217; radio call that led the officer to a crashed car and a mortally-injured woman: [Arizona Department of Public Safety director Col. Frank Milstead] said as the trooper began blocking off lanes of traffic and laying out flares, he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[346,359],"class_list":["post-69738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","tag-a-good-guy-with-a-gun","tag-rev-nancy-nord-bence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69738","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=69738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69750,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69738\/revisions\/69750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}