{"id":63827,"date":"2021-01-12T13:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63827"},"modified":"2021-01-12T13:54:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:54:02","slug":"63827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=63827","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Suspect killed by employee during smoke shop robbery in Barstow<\/a>
\nUnidentified man shot multiple times by store employee<\/p>\n

A shooting at a smoke shop in Barstow this week left a robbery suspect dead after Barstow Police officials said he pointed a handgun at a store employee and demanded money and property.<\/p>\n

The shooting occurred Wednesday afternoon at the So Cal Smoke Shop located at 1251 East Main Street. There, detectives learned through an investigation that the employee retrieved a handgun and shot the unidentified man as he was robbing the business, according to a Barstow Police statement.<\/p>\n

The detectives interviewed multiple witnesses, reviewed surveillance video and processed the scene as part of the investigation, the statement said.<\/p>\n

Officers were dispatched to So Cal Smoke Shop at about 2:37 p.m. Wednesday after receiving a report of a person shot during a robbery. At the scene, they found the alleged robber unresponsive, not breathing and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

The officers administered CPR and paramedics from the Barstow Fire Protection District continued life-saving efforts once they arrived. Despite their efforts, the man was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

A deputy coroner from the San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department Coroner Division and a deputy district attorney from the San Bernardino County District Attorney\u2019s Office also responded to the scene and assisted Barstow Police with the ensuing investigation, the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suspect killed by employee during smoke shop robbery in Barstow Unidentified man shot multiple times by store employee A shooting at a smoke shop in Barstow this week left a robbery suspect dead after Barstow Police officials said he pointed a handgun at a store employee and demanded money and property. The shooting occurred Wednesday … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63827","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\/63827","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=63827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63828,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63827\/revisions\/63828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}