{"id":27853,"date":"2011-12-09T07:08:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27853"},"modified":"2011-12-09T07:08:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T11:08:16","slug":"vt-officer-was-a-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27853","title":{"rendered":"VT officer was a veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned briefly yesterday the shooting at Virginia Tech in which an officer was killed during a routine traffic stop. Apparently the shooter wasn&#8217;t involved in the traffic stop but, rather ambushed 39-year-old Deriek W. Crouse of Christiansburg. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/12\/08\/shots-fired-at-virginia-techs-campus-gunman-sought\/?test=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crouse was an Army veteran and married father of five children and stepchildren who joined the campus police force about six months after the 2007 massacre. He previously worked at a jail and for the Montgomery County sheriff&#8217;s department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, VT officials are not blaming the shooter, but rather, the gun;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In light of the turmoil and trauma and the tragedy <strong>suffered by this campus by guns<\/strong>, I can only say words don&#8217;t describe our feelings and they&#8217;re elusive at this point in time,&#8221; university president Charles Steger said. &#8220;Our hearts are broken again for the family of our police officer.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like someone mentioned yesterday, thst this happened is inconceivable &#8211; it ocurred in a gun-free zone. Didn&#8217;t the gunman know that? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned briefly yesterday the shooting at Virginia Tech in which an officer was killed during &hellip; <a title=\"VT officer was a veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27853\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VT officer was a veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27853","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}