{"id":82378,"date":"2022-06-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82378"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:05:23","slug":"things-are-just-great-thanks-for-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82378","title":{"rendered":"Things Are Just Great.  Thanks For Asking."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saint Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/crimewatchmn.medium.com\/st-paul-records-19th-homicide-friday-night-1c2bd9bc8e9e\">notched its 19th homicide over the weekend<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The city of St. Paul recorded its 19th homicide Friday night after officers conducting a welfare check in the city\u2019s Dayton\u2019s Bluff neighborhood found a man dead from a gunshot wound.<\/p><p>A statement released by SPPD said officers were dispatched to a senior living apartment building on the 700 block of East Seventh Street just before 7 p.m.<\/p><p>They arrived, made entry into the apartment and found the man, who is believed to be in his late 50s. Initially, it was unclear to the officers if the injury was self-inflicted or caused by someone else, but after members of the Ramsey County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office and our forensic services unit responded and gathered more information and evidence, it became clear that someone had shot the man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Just for reference, Saint Paul had 38 homicides &#8211; the worst butcher&#8217;s bill in 25 years, and an alarming death toll in its own terms.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we continue at our current pace, the city will have 43 in 2022.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great job, Melvin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul notched its 19th homicide over the weekend: The city of St. Paul recorded its 19th homicide Friday night after officers conducting a welfare check in the city\u2019s Dayton\u2019s Bluff neighborhood found a man dead from a gunshot wound. A statement released by SPPD said officers were dispatched to a senior living apartment building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82378","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=82378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82381,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82378\/revisions\/82381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}