{"id":70777,"date":"2021-08-13T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T21:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70777"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T21:37:21","slug":"70777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70777","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmov.com\/news\/tncms-asset-3b0821f4-fc21-11eb-8ef3-4bb5bc835c0f.html\">Intruder killed by Webster Groves homeowner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. (KMOV.com) \u2013 A Webster Groves homeowner killed an alleged intruder overnight.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a homeowner in the 1400 block of Grant confronted a man who entered a rear door of his home just before 3 a.m. The homeowner was armed with a shotgun and reportedly shot the intruder when he did not comply with verbal commands to exit the residence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would have done the same,&#8221; neighbor Greg O&#8217;Brien said. He woke up to the incident. &#8220;That&#8217;s the first thing I did when I heard my dogs go crazy, I grabbed my handgun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suspected intruder was taken to the hospital and later pronounced dead. Authorities have not identified him.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is under investigation. Police said they do not believe there is an additional threat to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien said this type of crime isn&#8217;t common in this neighborhood. &#8220;Never, never that I&#8217;ve heard of.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intruder killed by Webster Groves homeowner WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. (KMOV.com) \u2013 A Webster Groves homeowner killed an alleged intruder overnight. According to police, a homeowner in the 1400 block of Grant confronted a man who entered a rear door of his home just before 3 a.m. The homeowner was armed with a shotgun and reportedly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=70777\" 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-70777","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\/70777","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=70777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70778,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70777\/revisions\/70778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}