{"id":76324,"date":"2022-01-20T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76324"},"modified":"2022-01-20T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:35:00","slug":"76324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76324","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwqc.com\/2022\/01\/20\/states-attorney-no-charges-filed-against-clerk-who-shot-alleged-robbers-rock-island-vape-shop\/\">No charges filed against clerk who shot alleged robbers at Rock Island vape shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211; Charges will not be filed at this time against a clerk at Blackhawks Tobacco &amp; Vape Shop who shot two alleged robbers, killing one, Tuesday night, Rock Island County State\u2019s Attorney Dora Villarreal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a preliminary review of surveillance video and witness interviews, it appears the use of force by the employee was justified as self-defense and for the defense of others inside the store during the robbery,\u201d she said in a media release posted on her Facebook page Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10:54 p.m. Tuesday, the business at 2733 18th Avenue in Rock Island was robbed by three males, Villarreal said. One of them pointed a gun at employees inside the store.<\/p>\n<p>One employee was able to get a gun kept by the store owner for protection because the store had been robbed twice in recent months, Villarreal said.<\/p>\n<p>The employee fired the gun several times and struck two of the alleged robbers.<\/p>\n<p>One of them died from their injuries, while the other is being treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Villarreal said she is preparing to file aggravated robbery charges against the two remaining robbery suspects and that additional charges are being considered as the case remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No charges filed against clerk who shot alleged robbers at Rock Island vape shop ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211; Charges will not be filed at this time against a clerk at Blackhawks Tobacco &amp; Vape Shop who shot two alleged robbers, killing one, Tuesday night, Rock Island County State\u2019s Attorney Dora Villarreal said. \u201cAfter a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76324\" 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-76324","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\/76324","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=76324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76325,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76324\/revisions\/76325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}