{"id":69855,"date":"2021-07-17T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69855"},"modified":"2021-07-17T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:40:04","slug":"69855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69855","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Stabbing Wednesday Night In Pottstown Was Self-Defense<\/a><\/p>\n

POTTSTOWN, PA \u2014 Police determined a stabbing on Wednesday night in the 100 block of N. Charlotte Street in Pottstown was done in self-defense.<\/p>\n

Johon Ford, 38, of Norristown, was found on N. Charlotte St. with a minor stab wound in his chest around 8:40 p.m., Pottstown Police Department Chief Michael Markovich reported. Ford was found near the Tri-County YWCA office on King Street and was taken to Reading Hospital and was released.<\/p>\n

A police investigation determined another man had stabbed Ford, but in self-defense, Markovich confirmed.<\/p>\n

Neither of the men wanted to be interviewed or discuss the incident further, Markovich said.<\/p>\n

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Prosecutor rules man acted in self-defense when he shot neighbor who broke into his home<\/a><\/p>\n

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A 37-year-old Yakima man won\u2019t be charged after shooting a neighbor who broke into his mobile home.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Yakima County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Brusic said Friday the man was defending his fianc\u00e9e and their six children in June when he shot Jose Mendoza-Martinez multiple times in the chest.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIf (the man) reasonably believed that he and\/or those with him were in imminent danger or a threat of great personal injury, he could use lethal force, which he did,\u201d Brusic wrote Friday. \u201cI find that the force used was both reasonable and necessary under the law.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Brusic noted that Washington law allows people to \u201cstand their ground\u201d and defend themselves when they are in a place lawfully, such as their own home.<\/div>\n
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Mendoza-Martinez, 38, was shot multiple times in the chest after he was found inside a bedroom of a mobile home at the Almost Sunshine RV Park, 218 E. N St. on June 24.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When the family came home around 7:45 p.m., one of the daughters found Mendoza-Martinez lying in her bed and told her mother, according to Brusic\u2019s summary of police reports. As the mother got her children out and called 911, the man got a Glock pistol and went into the bedroom, pointed the gun at Mendoza-Martinez and told him not to leave the room, Brusic\u2019s letter said.<\/div>\n
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Mendoza-Martinez had removed a fan to get into the bedroom window, and Brusic said police found a glass pipe, lighter, cigarette butt, a small piece of foil and a plastic bag.<\/div>\n
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The woman and her children heard yelling in the house, with the man telling Mendoza-Martinez \u201cThis is not your house,\u201d Brusic\u2019s letter said. Mendoza-Martinez lunged at the man, who fired five shots, killing Mendoza-Martinez, according to Brusic\u2019s letter.<\/div>\n
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The man then left the home, put his gun on the tire of his truck and waited for police with his hands up. Brusic said the man had a valid concealed pistol license.<\/div>\n
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Mendoza was a neighbor, police said. An autopsy ruled Mendoza\u2019s death a homicide, the seventh in the city this year, and the 15th in the county.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stabbing Wednesday Night In Pottstown Was Self-Defense POTTSTOWN, PA \u2014 Police determined a stabbing on Wednesday night in the 100 block of N. Charlotte Street in Pottstown was done in self-defense. Johon Ford, 38, of Norristown, was found on N. Charlotte St. with a minor stab wound in his chest around 8:40 p.m., Pottstown Police … Continue reading “”<\/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-69855","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\/69855","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=69855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69858,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69855\/revisions\/69858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}