{"id":90765,"date":"2023-03-13T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90765"},"modified":"2023-03-13T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T04:05:09","slug":"90765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90765","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battlecreekenquirer.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2023\/03\/09\/battle-creek-self-defense-fatal-shooting-georgetown-estates-donald-guthrie\/69991867007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man killed in Battle Creek in apparent self-defense shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">BATTLE CREEK \u2014 A 40-year-old Fulton man was killed in a Wednesday shooting inside an apartment in what police are calling a self-defense shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The man is accused of breaking into an apartment at Georgetown Estates, Battle Creek police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Officers responded to a distress call at the 1975 E. Columbia Ave. apartment complex around 9:41 p.m. Wednesday where they found Donald Richard Guthrie had been shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Guthrie was transported by LifeCare Ambulance to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo where he later died, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It appears that Guthrie had forced his way into the victim\u2019s Georgetown Estates apartment, at which time the victim shot Guthrie,&#8221; police said in a release. &#8220;At this time, it appears that the victim acted in self-defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The case will be submitted to the Calhoun County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for review, police said.\u00a0An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Police declined to release any further details Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man killed in Battle Creek in apparent self-defense shooting BATTLE CREEK \u2014 A 40-year-old Fulton man was killed in a Wednesday shooting inside an apartment in what police are calling a self-defense shooting. The man is accused of breaking into an apartment at Georgetown Estates, Battle Creek police said. Officers responded to a distress call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90765\" 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-90765","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\/90765","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=90765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90766,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90765\/revisions\/90766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}