{"id":75744,"date":"2022-01-02T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75744"},"modified":"2022-01-02T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T18:37:35","slug":"75744","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75744","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wreg.com\/news\/local\/shelby-co-sheriff-investigating-after-apparent-burglar-shot\/\">Shelby Co. Sheriff investigating after apparent burglar shot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 A Cordova man fired a single shot at someone he said was trying to break into his home during the early morning hours on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged would-be burglar was shot dead. The man who fired the round told us he wasn\u2019t alone inside the home as his 13-year-old son was there as well.<\/p>\n<p>The man added he was simply a dad, defending his child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The] assailant trying to break in, through my bedroom window. And as I as coming around from the kitchen in the room \u2013 I seen him,\u201d the man told us, but did not want to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3:30 in the morning, while inside his home at the Camden Grove Apartments just off North Houston Levee Road in Cordova, he had an unexpected visitor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was trying to take the screen off, to open the actual window,\u201d the man told us.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SCSO detectives are conducting a death investigation of the shooting of an apparent burglar at approximately 3:30 am this morning at the 1400 block of Archstone Drive in Cordova. An individual was found deceased near the scene. This is under investigation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RjufoViuAe\">pic.twitter.com\/RjufoViuAe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ShelbyTNSheriff (@ShelbyTNSheriff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShelbyTNSheriff\/status\/1477252699288739840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelby Co. Sheriff investigating after apparent burglar shot MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 A Cordova man fired a single shot at someone he said was trying to break into his home during the early morning hours on Saturday. The alleged would-be burglar was shot dead. The man who fired the round told us he wasn\u2019t alone inside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75744\" 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-75744","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\/75744","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=75744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75745,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75744\/revisions\/75745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}