{"id":72413,"date":"2021-09-22T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72413"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:17:09","slug":"72413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72413","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middletownpress.com\/news\/article\/Juvenile-cites-self-defense-after-killing-man-16476830.php\">Juvenile cites self-defense after killing man with arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DITTMER, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Authorities in eastern Missouri are investigating the death of a 40-year-old theft suspect killed by an arrow shot by a juvenile, who said the man came at him menacingly.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak on Tuesday announced details of the incident that happened Friday near the town of Dittmer. The man killed was identified as Michael Stotts of Dittmer.<\/p>\n<p>An attorney for the juvenile&#8217;s family told authorities that the juvenile was walking to a tree stand to hunt deer with a bow and arrow. He allegedly saw Stotts trying to steal a lawn tractor and wood splitter.<\/p>\n<p>The juvenile called his father, who arrived and confronted Stotts. Authorities say that during the confrontation, Stotts ran toward the juvenile.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney said the juvenile warned Stotts several times. When Stotts didn&#8217;t stop, the juvenile fired the arrow.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s department said the property has been the site of several recent thefts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juvenile cites self-defense after killing man with arrow DITTMER, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Authorities in eastern Missouri are investigating the death of a 40-year-old theft suspect killed by an arrow shot by a juvenile, who said the man came at him menacingly. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak on Tuesday announced details of the incident that happened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72413\" 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-72413","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\/72413","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=72413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72414,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72413\/revisions\/72414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}