Are victim supposed to ask the age of those robbing them before defending themselves?<\/p>\n
Victim in attempted carjacking shoots 14-year-old suspect<\/a><\/p>\n PHILADELPHIA<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/span>A Lyft driver who fell victim to an attempted carjacking shot the 14-year-old suspect, Philadelphia police say.<\/p>\n Neighbors on a quiet East Oak Lane block were still on edge Monday after gunfire had them scrambling from their beds this weekend.<\/p>\n Police say two teens, ages 14 and 15, called for a Lyft ride on the 6600 block of North 7th Street, and when the driver arrived things quickly turned violent. According to police, the two attempted to take the 50-year-old driver’s car.<\/p>\n One of the two teens pulled a gun and threatened the Lyft driver, but he had a license to carry and pulled out his own weapon, according to investigators.<\/p>\n Police say the driver shot the 14-year-old suspect in the leg. The 15-year-old stayed at the scene as police arrived. Investigators recovered the gun the teens used and it turned out to be a BB gun.<\/p>\n The Lyft driver was not injured during the incident.<\/p>\n It comes just a week after surveillance cameras captured a carjacking of a 52-year-old driver in Northeast Philly.<\/p>\n Police tracked down the carjackers to West Philly where a 17-year-old was arrested.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are victim supposed to ask the age of those robbing them before defending themselves? Victim in attempted carjacking shoots 14-year-old suspect PHILADELPHIA\u00a0–\u00a0A Lyft driver who fell victim to an attempted carjacking shot the 14-year-old suspect, Philadelphia police say. Neighbors on a quiet East Oak Lane block were still on edge Monday after gunfire had them … 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-66426","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\/66426","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=66426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66427,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66426\/revisions\/66427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}