{"id":74929,"date":"2017-09-25T08:35:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74929"},"modified":"2017-09-25T08:35:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:35:18","slug":"robert-engle-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74929","title":{"rendered":"Robert Engle; A good guy with a gun in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Engle-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Engle-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Engle-339x333.jpg 339w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Engle.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, a Sudanese immigrant, Emanuel Kidega Samson, carried two guns into the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee. He had killed Melanie Smith, 39, of Smyrna in the parking lot, and he opened fire on the congregation in the church wounding six more. He was confronted by a 22-year-old usher named Robert Engle, who tackled Samson. Engle was injured in the ensuing struggle, but Samson was wounded when his handgun discharged. <\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Engle went to his car and retrieved his handgun, went back into the church and held Samson until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2017\/09\/24\/nashville-police-identify-hero-usher-who-confronted-church-shooter\/698311001\/\">Tennessean<\/a> Nashville police credit Engle as a hero and the person who stopped Samson&#8217;s rampage;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Robert Engle &#8220;physically engaged&#8221; with the suspected shooter, who police say is 25-year-old Emanuel Samson. During the struggle between Engle and Samson, the shooter was shot in the chest, said Metro Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s the hero. He&#8217;s the person who stopped this madness,&#8221; Anderson said during a news conference. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a Sudanese immigrant, Emanuel Kidega Samson, carried two guns into the Burnette Chapel Church of &hellip; <a title=\"Robert Engle; A good guy with a gun in Tennessee\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74929\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Engle; A good guy with a gun in Tennessee<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74929","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=74929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}