{"id":75938,"date":"2022-01-08T11:11:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75938"},"modified":"2022-01-08T11:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:11:41","slug":"75938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75938","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Yakima man says he was defending family during Walmart shooting<\/a><\/p>\n

YAKIMA, Wash. \u2014\u00a0Yakima police\u00a0declined to arrest a 37-year-old man accused of shooting another man in a Walmart parking lot Thursday after he told investigators he was defending himself and his family during an attempted robbery.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, we\u2019re leaning towards this being a self-defense type of incident,\u201d Sgt. Jake Lancaster said.<\/p>\n

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Lancaster said the 37-year-old was eating lunch in his car with his girlfriend and her 16-year-old child in the Walmart parking lot at 1600 E. Chestnut Ave. before going grocery shopping. At just after 4 p.m., someone reportedly got out of a car parked behind them, opened the family\u2019s car door and pointed a firearm at them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAt that point, he was demanding money and then he was demanding they get out of their vehicle,\u201d Lancaster said.<\/p>\n

Lancaster said the 37-year-old driver produced his own firearm during the altercation, shot the unknown man multiple times and left the scene. He reportedly took his family to the nearby Target parking lot, called 911 to report the incident and waited for police to arrive.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the 31-year-old man was being treated at the crime scene for gunshot wounds to the chest and neck. Police said the man may have died at the scene were it not for an AMR ambulance crew that was on break in the parking lot and responded seconds after the shooting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBy the time they got there, he had stopped breathing and so they were rendering first aid CPR when the officers arrived,\u201d Capt. Jay Seely said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The man was taken to Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital for emergency surgery, then transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he remains in critical condition Friday night.<\/p>\n

Investigators said they noticed what appeared to be drugs in the man\u2019s vehicle, but are having to wait on a search warrant to be able to take a closer look. They do not believe the incident was gang-related.<\/p>\n

Lancaster said after arriving at the Target parking lot, detectives took the 37-year-old man and his family to the police station for questioning. He said they did not arrest the man, who told investigators the shooting was self-defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have discussed this with the prosecutors but we\u2019re still too early in the investigation to have made a full decision on whether or not charges will be filed,\u201d Lancaster said. \u201cSometimes these things take a while and with the self defense claims, we\u2019re going to have to do a lot more investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yakima man says he was defending family during Walmart shooting YAKIMA, Wash. \u2014\u00a0Yakima police\u00a0declined to arrest a 37-year-old man accused of shooting another man in a Walmart parking lot Thursday after he told investigators he was defending himself and his family during an attempted robbery. \u201cAt this point, we\u2019re leaning towards this being a self-defense … 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-75938","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\/75938","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=75938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75939,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75938\/revisions\/75939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}