{"id":85056,"date":"2019-02-16T12:08:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85056"},"modified":"2019-02-16T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T16:08:19","slug":"aurora-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85056","title":{"rendered":"Aurora mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/illinois-shoot-e1550330965851.jpg\" alt=\"illinois shooting \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another tragic, senseless shooting occurred in an Aurora, Illinois industrial park yesterday. Six dead, including the shooter, and  five Law Officers wounded. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities have confirmed that the shooter, Gary Martin, 45, was killed in a shootout with police. Police said he was a 15-year veteran of the Henry Pratt Co. and was about to be fired.<\/p>\n<p>The five wounded officers and a sixth employee also wounded are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a late-night news conference, Ziman said it was not yet clear whether the suspect, armed with a Smith &#038; Wesson handgun, was carrying the weapon at the time of his dismissal or whether he \u201cwent to retrieve it\u201d before opening fire.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness and fellow employee told CNN he saw the gunman running through the building carrying a pistol fitted with a laser sight.<\/p>\n<p>Also uncertain was the degree to which the shooting was premeditated, Ziman told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe information that we have indicates he was being terminated today,\u201d she said, adding that the reason for his dismissal was not known to police.<\/p>\n<p>The chief said investigators were still looking into whether the gunman had a prior criminal history, but public records show Martin was convicted in 1995 for aggravated assault in Mississippi. Convicted felons are generally barred from possessing firearms.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the story here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-illinois-shooting-idUSKCN1Q42M4\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again, a good guy with a gun&#8230;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll just leave this here.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/no-gun-zone-e1550331823305.jpg\" alt=\"no gun zone\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another tragic, senseless shooting occurred in an Aurora, Illinois industrial park yesterday. Six dead, including the &hellip; <a title=\"Aurora mass shooting\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85056\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aurora mass shooting<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,156,6,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-guns","category-media","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85056","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}