{"id":106089,"date":"2024-12-08T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T22:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106089"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T22:05:37","slug":"106089","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106089","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cwbchicago.com\/2024\/12\/armed-robber-killed-when-victim-fights-for-control-of-his-gun.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armed robber killed when victim fights for control of his gun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 An armed robber is dead, apparently shot by his own firearm as the would-be victim tried to gain control of the weapon on Saturday afternoon, Chicago police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police initially responded to calls of three men beating a man on the ground in the 1500 block of West Garfield around 2:51 p.m. First responders soon learned that the subject of the beating was also the robber, who had been mortally wounded by a gunshot, too.<\/p>\n<p>CPD said a 43-year-old man was working outside when the still-unidentified robber walked up, displayed a gun, and demanded property.<\/p>\n<p>A struggle for control of the firearm began, resulting in the robber suffering a single gunshot wound to his chest, according to police. He died a short time later at the University of Chicago Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>An officer at the scene said they found a gun and a ski mask at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed robber killed when victim fights for control of his gun CHICAGO \u2014 An armed robber is dead, apparently shot by his own firearm as the would-be victim tried to gain control of the weapon on Saturday afternoon, Chicago police said. Police initially responded to calls of three men beating a man on the ground &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106089\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106090,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106089\/revisions\/106090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}