{"id":87089,"date":"2022-10-28T15:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87089"},"modified":"2022-10-28T15:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:14:54","slug":"87089","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87089","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/tampa\/2022\/10\/28\/man-fatally-shot-tampa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man fatally shot after raising fake gun toward second man in Tampa,<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">TAMPA \u2014 A man fatally shot another man who had raised what turned out to be a fake gun toward him at a home in Tampa\u2019s Lowry Park North neighborhood, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Officers dispatched at about 11:30 p.m. to a call about shots fired on the 8500 block of North Hamner Avenue found a man in his late 30s suffering from gunshot wounds in his upper body, according to Tampa police. Officers provided first aid until Tampa Fire Rescue crews arrived and pronounced the man dead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__body-html raw-html\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3521.9119524041266!2d-82.46897558255615!3d28.02716680000001!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x88c2c6c8d0d62555%3A0x526b03e16cc4e500!2s8500%20N%20Hamner%20Ave%2C%20Tampa%2C%20FL%2033604!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1666976815892!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">The shooter, a man in his mid-20s, stayed at the scene and cooperated with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The shooter told investigators he was sitting in his car, parked in a friend\u2019s driveway, when the other man parked his vehicle in the street, got out, put a handgun in his waistband, approached the shooter\u2019s vehicle and knocked on the window. The shooter told police he lowered his window and the other man \u201cyelled something unknown before raising the gun toward him,\u201d a news release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The shooter told police he thought the man was going to shoot him, so he retrieved his own gun and shot the man. Investigators determined the man\u2019s gun was fake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said the shooting was not a random act but have not said whether the two men knew each other and have not released either man\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The investigation continued Friday, and police were consulting with the Hillsborough County State Attorney\u2019s Office to determine what, if any, criminal charges will be filed against the shooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man fatally shot after raising fake gun toward second man in Tampa, TAMPA \u2014 A man fatally shot another man who had raised what turned out to be a fake gun toward him at a home in Tampa\u2019s Lowry Park North neighborhood, police said. Officers dispatched at about 11:30 p.m. to a call about shots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87089\" 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-87089","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\/87089","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=87089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87090,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87089\/revisions\/87090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}