{"id":111668,"date":"2025-08-16T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111668"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:45:54","slug":"111668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111668","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/joliet-shooting-today-mother-baby-fatally-shoots-home-invasion-suspect-7000-block-hadrian-drive-police-say\/17558420\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother with baby fatally shoots suspected home invader in Joliet<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) &#8212;\u00a0<\/span>A mother with a baby fatally shot a suspected home invader in the south suburbs on Friday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Joliet police said officers responded to a report of a home invasion in the 7000-block of Hadrian Drive around 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the woman, armed with a gun, heard someone break into her home. That&#8217;s when she took her child and hid in a bedroom closet on the second floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police believe that when the suspect entered that bedroom, the woman opened fire, striking him in the head. The suspect was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Responding officers found the woman and her child in the adjacent bedroom, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect was wearing gloves and had a screwdriver at the time. The woman did not know who he was, and his identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother with baby fatally shoots suspected home invader in Joliet JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) &#8212;\u00a0A mother with a baby fatally shot a suspected home invader in the south suburbs on Friday night, police said. Joliet police said officers responded to a report of a home invasion in the 7000-block of Hadrian Drive around 10:30 p.m. Police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111668\" 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-111668","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\/111668","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=111668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111669,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111668\/revisions\/111669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}