{"id":75466,"date":"2021-12-20T23:19:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T05:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75466"},"modified":"2021-12-20T23:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T05:19:52","slug":"75466","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75466","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/atlanta\/resident-shoots-kills-person-their-garage-police-say\/YAO5EYN74VBPHHD5KXL3F5IGUA\/\">Police say deadly shooting in NW Atlanta appears to be self-defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Atlanta police said deadly shooting in Northwest Atlanta appears to be a case of self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said one person is dead following the shooting Monday along Westlake Avenue NW. The homeowner is not facing charges at this time.<\/p>\n<p>An officer confirmed to Channel 2\u2032s Richard Elliot that a resident saw someone in their carport, and then shot and killed them.<\/p>\n<p>APD Homicide Unit Commander Ralf Woolfolk said the homeowner went to police headquarters and is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still in the early stages of the investigation and trying to ascertain all the details as to what happened,\u201d Woolfolk said.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia law is clear when it comes to protecting oneself on one\u2019s own property, including inside a carport. Investigators are classifying this case as a justifiable shooting and said that the homeowner appears to have been protecting himself from an intruder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say deadly shooting in NW Atlanta appears to be self-defense ATLANTA \u2014 Atlanta police said deadly shooting in Northwest Atlanta appears to be a case of self-defense. Investigators said one person is dead following the shooting Monday along Westlake Avenue NW. The homeowner is not facing charges at this time. An officer confirmed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75466\" 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-75466","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\/75466","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=75466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75467,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75466\/revisions\/75467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}