{"id":37712,"date":"2013-09-25T07:34:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37712"},"modified":"2013-09-25T07:34:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T11:34:53","slug":"pennsylvania-clears-man-who-shot-burglar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37712","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania clears man who shot burglar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siggurdsson sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/local\/neighborhoods-south\/munhall-mans-fatal-shooting-of-attempted-burglar-justified-allegheny-county-da-says-704682\/\">Pittsburgh Gazette<\/a> which reports that a man was cleared of charges after he shot a former Marine who was acting as a look out for his accomplice in a burglary of the man&#8217;s detached garage where he kept his 1977 Mustang;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[John] Rozgonyi left his house and went onto Victor Way, an alley that runs by his fenced-in garage. He he encountered Andrew E. Stevens, a 23-year-old Marine veteran from Munhall, and told him police were on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stevens, armed with a handgun, fired at shot and Mr. Rozgonyi returned fire with his pistol, the district attorney said. Each man fired six shots; two struck Mr. Stevens, who died in the alley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has changed this gentleman&#8217;s life,&#8221; [District Attorney Stephen A.] Zappala said of Mr. Rozgonyi. &#8220;The deceased forced his hand. He wasn&#8217;t looking for trouble. This is classic self-defense, classic Castle Doctrine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article says that Stevens was a warehouse worker in the Marine Corps which explains his poor marksmanship skills. Stevens accomplice was also arrested and now he&#8217;ll face the murder charges for Steven&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siggurdsson sends us a link to the Pittsburgh Gazette which reports that a man was cleared &hellip; <a title=\"Pennsylvania clears man who shot burglar\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37712\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pennsylvania clears man who shot burglar<\/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":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37712","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=37712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}