{"id":115378,"date":"2026-02-28T18:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115378"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:15:50","slug":"115378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115378","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF (<em>Again,<\/em> how many times do you hear this?)<br \/>\nOther neighbors shared the sentiment: This is not the area where things like this happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdtn.com\/news\/1-dead-after-reportedly-shot-in-self-defense-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man reportedly killed in self defense in Springfield ID\u2019d; neighbors shocked it happened<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) \u2014 Police are investigating after an early morning shooting in Springfield Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were sent to a home in the 1700 block of Maiden Lane at 12:56 a.m. on a report of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, they located a man, later identified as Anthony Walker Jr., 28, who had been shot multiple times. He was pronounced dead by Springfield Fire Rescue Division medics.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the shooting was in self-defense, and that there are no threats to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors in the area who say incidents like these are rare for this neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>They said that this area is typically quiet and that fireworks were the loudest disturbances they were used to.<\/p>\n<p>One person said the fireworks they thought they\u2019d heard early in the morning turned out to be gunshots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe heard about five pops and thought someone\u2019s shooting fireworks again,\u201d said a neighbor, who says she has lived nearby for years. \u201cThey started roping off the area so we knew something was up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just like a quiet small town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The neighbor says they were stunned learning someone had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were pretty shocked that kind of excitement unfortunately coming around here,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s not normal. Not at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other neighbors shared the sentiment: This is not the area where things like this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF (Again, how many times do you hear this?) Other neighbors shared the sentiment: This is not the area where things like this happen. Man reportedly killed in self defense in Springfield ID\u2019d; neighbors shocked it happened SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) \u2014 Police are investigating after an early morning shooting in Springfield Friday. Officers were sent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=115378\" 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":[43,17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harsh-but-true","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115378","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=115378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115380,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115378\/revisions\/115380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}