{"id":44199,"date":"2014-04-20T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44199"},"modified":"2014-04-20T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T15:48:04","slug":"mohammed-pedro-whitaker-held-in-kcmo-highway-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44199","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed Pedro Whitaker held in KCMO highway shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=44201\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mohammedwhitaker.jpg\" alt=\"mohammedwhitaker\" width=\"241\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44201\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So this dude by the name of Mohammed Pedro Whitaker was arrested the other day and he&#8217;s facing 18 counts related to at least nine incidents of shooting at other drivers from his car, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/04\/18\/us\/kansas-city-highway-shootings\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Probable cause statements show police connected the shootings through .380 bullets found in the vehicles. Starting in early March, motorists told police of being shot at in the I-435\/I-470\/Highway 71 interchanges.<\/p>\n<p>In several cases, the drivers reported seeing a dark green car near them driven by a man wearing sunglasses, a dark hoodie and sometimes a black ski mask.<\/p>\n<p>One break came when a witness looking for a lost cell phone beside a road found a Walmart bag containing .380 ammunition, the documents showed. Prints on the ammunition boxes matched Whitaker&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>After police started shadowing Whitaker, he was observed trying to buy a .380 handgun with a laser sight from a man in a Bass Pro Shop parking lot, the statements said.<\/p>\n<p>When police questioned the second man, he told officers he advertised the pistol online but refused to sell when Whitaker couldn&#8217;t provide identification, the statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you see, not all private transactions go the way the criminals want it to go. One honest gun seller had his own system for background checks.  <\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2014\/04\/18\/4968116\/man-27-charged-in-area-highway.html\">Kansas City Star<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While under surveillance, police saw Whitaker allegedly driving aggressively and stalking potential victims by pacing cars in their blind spots on highways, according to court records. Whitaker even braked rapidly to allow another motorist to pull up alongside. Whitaker turned to face the motorist, not knowing he was an undercover officer, the records show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No one is saying what his motivations were, so I guess we&#8217;re left to speculate. He targeted random drivers, so, my guess is that he wanted to terrorize the entire city. Luckily he wasn&#8217;t very well trained, since there was a bullet hole inside his car. We keep getting lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this dude by the name of Mohammed Pedro Whitaker was arrested the other day and &hellip; <a title=\"Mohammed Pedro Whitaker held in KCMO highway shootings\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44199\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mohammed Pedro Whitaker held in KCMO highway shootings<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44199","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=44199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}