{"id":105097,"date":"2020-09-15T16:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105097"},"modified":"2020-09-15T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:27:08","slug":"soldier-shot-wounded-at-fort-bliss-after-allegedly-causing-disturbance-pointing-gun-at-military-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105097","title":{"rendered":"Soldier shot, wounded at Fort Bliss after allegedly causing disturbance, pointing gun at Military Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_105098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105098\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fort-bliss-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fort-bliss-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fort-bliss-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fort-bliss.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fort Bliss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Multiple sources are reporting an incident in which a soldier brandished a firearm at MPs last night at Fort Bliss in Texas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Military Police shot and wounded a soldier causing a disturbance early Tuesday on post at Fort Bliss, Army officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place just after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Fort Bliss authorities said the wounded soldier, who was assigned to the 1st Armored Division, was being treated for his injuries at an El Paso hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the soldier &#8220;presented an armed direct threat to law enforcement by allegedly pointing a handgun at Military Police officers and was shot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation with the MPs occurred when they responded to a report of a disturbance taking place, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Special agents with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command were probing the shooting to further determine how events unfolded; agents were examining the shooting scene and said they had the wounded soldier&#8217;s handgun in their possession as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier&#8217;s identity was not released by officials, who added that no one else was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A late afternoon news conference at the base was set to provide additional details; <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/livestream-events\/\">KVIA.com plans to livestream the 4 p.m. briefing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/news\/military\/2020\/09\/15\/military-police-shoot-wound-soldier-causing-disturbance-at-fort-bliss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KVIA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple sources are reporting an incident in which a soldier brandished a firearm at MPs last &hellip; <a title=\"Soldier shot, wounded at Fort Bliss after allegedly causing disturbance, pointing gun at Military Police\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105097\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldier shot, wounded at Fort Bliss after allegedly causing disturbance, pointing gun at Military Police<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,232,83,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-army-news","category-breaking-news","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105099,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105097\/revisions\/105099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}