{"id":30593,"date":"2012-07-02T08:12:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T12:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30593"},"modified":"2012-07-02T08:12:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T12:12:43","slug":"fort-bragg-shooter-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30593","title":{"rendered":"Fort Bragg shooter dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=116980\">Department of Defense<\/a> has announced that Spc. Ricky G. Elder, the guy who shot LTC Tisdale at Fort Bragg last Thursday has died from hi self-inflicted wound;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\tElder, who was 27 years old at the time of his death, allegedly shot Army Lt. Col. Roy L. Tisdale, commander of the 525th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, during a June 28 safety briefing near the unit\u2019s headquarters in the historic district of Fort Bragg around 3:30 p.m., according to installation officials.<\/p>\n<p>Tisdale, 42, of Alvin, Texas, was killed immediately, officials said. Elder reportedly turned the weapon upon himself, causing life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Army Spc. Michael E. Latham, 22, a signal support system specialist assigned to the Battlefield Surveillance Brigade, had received a minor, non-life threatening wound during the June 28 shooting. Latham, a native of Vacaville, Calif., who joined the Army in October 2009, was released from Fort Bragg\u2019s Womack Army Medical Center and is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Elder had been charged with larceny of a toolkit valued at $1,700 and was pending court martial for that charge. Charges had been referred but his trial had not been scheduled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, at least we won&#8217;t have to spend money on a trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense has announced that Spc. Ricky G. Elder, the guy who shot LTC &hellip; <a title=\"Fort Bragg shooter dies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30593\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fort Bragg shooter dies<\/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":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30593","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=30593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}