{"id":78595,"date":"2018-03-30T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78595"},"modified":"2018-03-30T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T13:36:07","slug":"james-decoursey-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78595","title":{"rendered":"James Decoursey killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78596\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/James-Decoursey-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/James-Decoursey-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/James-Decoursey-284x333.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/James-Decoursey.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mick sends us the news that James Decoursey, while disguised as a police officer, killed off-duty Hopkinsville Police officer Phillip Meacham when Decoursey pulled over Meacham. Logan County, Kentucky Sheriff&#8217;s Office reports that they put down Decoursey according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/03\/30\/suspect-accused-posing-as-police-officer-killing-kentucky-cop-killed-by-law-enforcement.html\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a Hopkinsville Police Department news release, the off-duty officer was pulled over in his own car by someone &#8220;pretending to be a police officer.&#8221; Not long after, the officer reportedly was shot by the suspect. He was rushed to the hospital where he ultimately died from his injuries, authorities said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentuckynewera.com\/news\/article_967db43c-33dd-11e8-8250-137bc279260c.html#utm_campaign=blox&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social\">Kentucky New Era<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Decoursey is believed to have fled the scene on foot before stealing a white 1997 white Chevrolet pickup truck, Kentucky license plate number 2070GH.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen vehicle was located at Cracker Barrel in Clarksville, according to scanner traffic. Shortly late, scanner traffic indicated Decoursey was located behind Cracker Barrel. An employee of the Exxon gas station next to Cracker Barrel said he heard multiple gunshots and that officers had blocked off traffic in the area.<\/p>\n<p>HPD confirmed early Friday morning that Decoursey was dead. He is believed to have been shot by police, though it&#8217;s unclear if it was by Clarksville Police Department or Montgomery County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends us the news that James Decoursey, while disguised as a police officer, killed off-duty &hellip; <a title=\"James Decoursey killed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78595\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Decoursey killed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78595","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=78595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}