{"id":37210,"date":"2013-08-23T06:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37210"},"modified":"2013-08-23T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T16:01:44","slug":"teens-beat-okinawa-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37210","title":{"rendered":"Teens beat Okinawa vet (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=2623581188001&#038;w=500&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>I awoke to about twenty tips to this story this morning, so I&#8217;m guessing that you want to discuss it. An 89-year-old veteran who was wounded at the battle for Okinawa, Delbert Belton, was randomly beaten by two teens in a parking lot near Spokane, WA. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxly.com\/news\/spokane-news\/elderly-man-dies-after-being-attacked-outside-ice-arena\/-\/101214\/21574858\/-\/9flm7iz\/-\/index.html\">KXLY<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witnesses say Belton was in the parking lot of the Eagles Lodge at 6410 N. Lidgerwood, adjacent to the Eagles Ice-A-Rena, around 8 p.m. Wednesday when the two male suspects attacked him as he was about to head inside to play pool.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded with K-9s to track the suspects&#8217; scent but were not able to locate them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does appear random. He was in the parking lot, it appears he was assaulted in the parking lot and there was no indication that he would have known these people prior to the assault,&#8221; Spokane Police Major Crimes Detective Lieutenant Mark Griffiths said.<\/p>\n<p>Belton died from his injuries Thursday morning at Sacred Heart Medical Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATES:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/23\/us\/world-war-vet-beating-death\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> says a suspect has been arrested;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A juvenile has been arrested by Spokane police in connection with the beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran this week, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The male suspect has been charged with first-degree robbery and first-degree murder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/22\/james-woods-leads-call-for-justice-for-slain-world-war-ii-vet-delbert-belton\/\">Twitchy:<\/a> James Woods leads calls for justice in murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com I awoke to about twenty tips to this story this &hellip; <a title=\"Teens beat Okinawa vet (UPDATED)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37210\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teens beat Okinawa vet (UPDATED)<\/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-37210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37210","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=37210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}