{"id":113461,"date":"2025-11-22T04:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113461"},"modified":"2025-11-22T04:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:08:53","slug":"113461","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113461","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article312957344.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Prairie resident fatally shoots suspected burglar in self-defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Grand Prairie homeowner shot and killed a burglar in self-defense inside his house early Sunday, police said. Officers responded to the 400 block of Santa Margarita Street about 2 a.m. on a suspicious person\u2019s call, Grand Prairie police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner, who called 911, told police that an unknown person forcefully entered the back door of his home, police said. The homeowner, described as an elderly man, was armed with a hunting rifle and confronted the burglary suspect \u201cwho was rummaging through property inside the house,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>The resident, \u201cfearing for his life,\u201d shot the burglar who died at the scene, police said. The shooting is being investigated as self-defense and no charges are expected on the homeowner, police said. The person who died will be identified by Dallas County Medical Examiner\u2019s Officer after next of kin have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Prairie resident fatally shoots suspected burglar in self-defense A Grand Prairie homeowner shot and killed a burglar in self-defense inside his house early Sunday, police said. Officers responded to the 400 block of Santa Margarita Street about 2 a.m. on a suspicious person\u2019s call, Grand Prairie police said in a news release. The homeowner, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=113461\" 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-113461","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\/113461","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=113461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113462,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113461\/revisions\/113462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}