{"id":82104,"date":"2022-06-09T18:23:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82104"},"modified":"2022-06-09T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:23:29","slug":"82104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82104","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/breaking-news\/school-resource-officer-shoots-kills-suspicious-person-outside-elementary-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School resource officer shoots, kills \u2018suspicious person\u2019 outside Alabama school<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) \u2014 Authorities say a person who was outside an Alabama elementary school was shot to death by police.<\/p>\n<p>Etowah County Sheriff Jonathon Horton tells The Gadsden Times there was a report of someone trying to get into either Walnut Park Elementary School or vehicles outside the building on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">The city runs summer programs for children at the school. Horton says a police officer working as a school resource officer encountered the person, got involved in an altercation and called for backup.\u00a0<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Other officers responded and the person was shot to death. One officer suffered minor injuries. All the children are safe.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Reddick, Superintendent of Gadsden City Schools, said he received an urgent call from Walnut Park\u2019s principal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a call from the principal who\u2019s really distraught, and I really couldn\u2019t make out what was happening,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs42.com\/alabama-news\/police-advise-public-to-avoid-area-around-walnut-park-elementary-due-to-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he told News Channel 8 sister station WIAT<\/a>. \u201cBut I knew it was something pretty bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">Reddick hurried to the school and when he arrived, the man was already on the ground, shot by law enforcement.<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>He told WIAT that the school system is vigilant in preparing for events like these. He and the school\u2019s principal, he said, had just participated in a seminar that included school safety training on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School resource officer shoots, kills \u2018suspicious person\u2019 outside Alabama school GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) \u2014 Authorities say a person who was outside an Alabama elementary school was shot to death by police. Etowah County Sheriff Jonathon Horton tells The Gadsden Times there was a report of someone trying to get into either Walnut Park Elementary School &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=82104\" 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":[59,17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82104","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=82104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82105,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82104\/revisions\/82105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}