{"id":76843,"date":"2022-02-02T01:53:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76843"},"modified":"2022-02-02T02:13:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T08:13:13","slug":"76843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76843","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, pistol whipping, often called &#8216;<em>buffaloing<\/em>&#8216;, does have a lot of history behind it. Another instance of a <em>literal<\/em> &#8216;slug for a thug&#8217;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joplinglobe.com\/news\/crime_and_courts\/charges-filed-in-weekend-self-defense-shooting\/article_08f93040-82f9-11ec-bb8b-0fc3006727be.html\">Charges filed in weekend self-defense shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Joplin man is facing three felony counts in connection with a shooting incident early Saturday morning in the 700 block of West 21st Street.<\/p>\n<p>Robert M. Nevels, 33, was arrested at the scene of the shooting and taken to the hospital for treatment before being transported to jail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joplin police Capt. William Davis said homeowner Brian L. Sooter, 47, told police that Nevels pulled a gun on him at his residence and that he defended himself by pulling out his own gun and firing a shot at him. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Davis said Nevels was not hit by the round, but Sooter then struck him with his gun and Nevels sustained facial injuries requiring treatment at Mercy Hospital Joplin.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 18 grams of methamphetamine purportedly were found in Nevels&#8217; possession when he was arrested. He has been charged with unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm as a felon and delivery of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, pistol whipping, often called &#8216;buffaloing&#8216;, does have a lot of history behind it. Another instance of a literal &#8216;slug for a thug&#8217; Charges filed in weekend self-defense shooting A Joplin man is facing three felony counts in connection with a shooting incident early Saturday morning in the 700 block of West 21st Street. Robert &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76843\" 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-76843","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\/76843","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=76843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76847,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76843\/revisions\/76847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}