{"id":69545,"date":"2021-07-06T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69545"},"modified":"2021-07-06T13:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T18:56:45","slug":"69545","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69545","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/driver-gets-shot-after-bumping-bicyclist-man-shoots-hitting-wife-with-truck-suspect-ran-over\/10859767\/\">Driver charged with aggravated assault for hitting bicyclist in SE Houston<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A man and woman were riding their bikes on the street Sunday in southeast Houston when a driver used his vehicle to hit the woman, knocking her off her bike, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the male cyclist was in fear for his life and fired shots at the driver.<\/p>\n<p>It happened in the 5000 block of Jefferson Street around 2:19 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver told the bicyclists that they could not be riding around in the neighborhood. The violent confrontation happened a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>The male cyclist had a gun on him and shot the driver, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was in fear of his life, and he was trying to defend himself,&#8221; a police officer at the scene said of the bicyclist.<\/p>\n<p>Police also said the driver had no right to tell the bicyclists they could not ride around in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The driver, identified as Jose Angel Hernandez, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to Houston police.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclists are OK, according to authorities. The driver was taken to Ben Taub Hospital. His condition was not known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver charged with aggravated assault for hitting bicyclist in SE Houston HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A man and woman were riding their bikes on the street Sunday in southeast Houston when a driver used his vehicle to hit the woman, knocking her off her bike, officials say. Authorities say the male cyclist was in fear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69545\" 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-69545","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\/69545","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=69545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69546,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69545\/revisions\/69546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}