{"id":34551,"date":"2013-03-14T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T11:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34551"},"modified":"2013-03-14T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T11:39:24","slug":"standoff-continues-in-herkimer-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34551","title":{"rendered":"Standoff continues in Herkimer, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.com\/news\/x930813837\/2-people-reportedly-shot-at-Herkimer-car-wash\">local news<\/a>, Herkimer law enforcement continues to engage with 64-year-old Kurt Myers on Main Street. Here&#8217;s some video of the action yesterday as Myers, who is barricaded in a building kept police away;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oCMYyOMbDXQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Earlier in the night, a police robot was sent into the building, and later on tactical units could be seen entering and exiting the building. Police helicopters also were used throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Repeated attempts to reach Myers on a cell phone went unanswered, police said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It must be frustrating to have all of that electronic equipment, body armor, high-powered weapons, armored vehicles, the toughest gun laws in the country and still be subservient to the whims of a single 64-year-old with a shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>I can appreciate that they want to take him alive, but, ya know, ya reach a point where he&#8217;s made a decision how it&#8217;s going to end.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Myers&#8217; only arrest was for a drunk driving charge in 1973. Neighbors describe him as &#8220;an odd little man&#8221;, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/crime\/article\/Woman-Gunman-ex-customer-of-NY-shop-he-attacked-4351765.php\">Albany Times Union<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Traci Randall said the only time she remembers speaking to her next-door neighbor was when he yelled at her son because he thought he had shot an air pellet at his Jeep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He would walk by himself. He was kind of a loner. No wife,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors said he never had visitors or friends. Gary Urich said Myers wouldn&#8217;t even say much as &#8216;Hi&#8217; to him when walking by his porch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to local news, Herkimer law enforcement continues to engage with 64-year-old Kurt Myers on Main &hellip; <a title=\"Standoff continues in Herkimer, NY\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34551\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Standoff continues in Herkimer, NY<\/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":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551","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=34551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}