{"id":39471,"date":"2014-01-26T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39471"},"modified":"2014-01-26T08:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T13:30:33","slug":"columbia-maryland-mall-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39471","title":{"rendered":"Columbia, Maryland Mall shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we wrote briefly about the Mall in Columbia shooting, and now the information about it is coming out in drips and drabs. The shooter&#8217;s name and his motives haven&#8217;t been released yet, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/01\/26\/police-respond-to-report-shooting-at-maryland-mall\/\">Fox News<\/a> says that one of the two victims, 21-year-old Brianna Benlolo has connections to the military. Fox broadcast news says that the shooter used a shotgun, Joe Biden&#8217;s choice. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jan\/25\/3-dead-maryland-mall-shooting\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that five others were injured besides the two who were murdered, four were released from the hospital, while one remains for treatment of a foot wound. The Times also says that the shooter reportedly had a &#8220;large amount&#8221; of ammunition. Fox News says that he also had &#8220;two crude devices that appeared to be attempts at improvised explosives&#8221; which were disabled.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/crime\/maryland-mall-shooting-shatters-shoppers-feelings-of-safety\/2014\/01\/25\/cc26e9d0-85f1-11e3-801f-e3ff2ca3fab6_story.html?hpid=z1\">Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whatever the reason, the echoing shots provoked terror for those in the mall, igniting fears of yet another mass shooting in a public place that, until now, they considered safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They wouldn&#8217;t consider it safe if the read Tom Clancy, or watched the news. Unless of course, they believed their governor, Martin O&#8217;Malley, when he told Maryland residents that they were safe now because of the gun control legislation he rammed down their throats last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we wrote briefly about the Mall in Columbia shooting, and now the information about it &hellip; <a title=\"Columbia, Maryland Mall shooting\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39471\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Columbia, Maryland Mall shooting<\/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-39471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471","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=39471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}