{"id":87503,"date":"2022-11-09T16:55:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87503"},"modified":"2022-11-09T16:55:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:55:36","slug":"87503","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87503","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/birmingham\/2022\/11\/suspected-intruder-shot-critically-wounded-as-he-tried-to-crawl-through-window-of-west-birmingham-house.html?outputType=amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suspected intruder shot, killed while trying to crawl through home window,<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old man was killed when police say he was shot while trying to break into a west Birmingham [Alabama] home.<\/p>\n<p>The burglary call went out at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday at a house on Avenue O.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner told police the intruder was trying to crawl through the window of her house. She grabbed her gun and fired a couple of shots, striking the burglary suspect once in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether the homeowner knew the man.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the wounded man then ran a block to the Chevron on Bessemer Road where he collapsed at the front door of the store. A store worker called Birmingham 911 at 12:46 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>West Precinct officers arrived at the store and provided aid to the man until paramedics arrived. He was then transported to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 2:11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Jefferson County Coroner\u2019s Office said the man\u2019s name is being withheld pending notification of his family.\u00a0The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The man is Birmingham\u2019s 126th homicide this year. Of those, seven have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren\u2019t deemed criminal.<\/p>\n<p>In all of Jefferson County, there have been 170 homicides, including the 126 in Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected intruder shot, killed while trying to crawl through home window, A 29-year-old man was killed when police say he was shot while trying to break into a west Birmingham [Alabama] home. The burglary call went out at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday at a house on Avenue O. The homeowner told police the intruder was trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87503\" 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-87503","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\/87503","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=87503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87504,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87503\/revisions\/87504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}