{"id":97968,"date":"2023-11-22T18:13:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97968"},"modified":"2023-11-22T18:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:13:48","slug":"97968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97968","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/nw-austin-homeowner-fatally-shoots-intruder-in-self-defense-police-say-foundation-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NW Austin homeowner fatally shoots intruder in self-defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police say a man was shot and killed after breaking into a northwest Austin home last month.<\/p>\n<p>It happened Saturday, Oct. 21, in the 10500 block of Foundation Road, in a neighborhood just off FM 620.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department says officers responded to the home at around 11:43 p.m. for a shooting call.<\/p>\n<p>The caller reportedly stated that he had shot 55-year-old Ricardo Cortez, who had broken into his home. Upon arrival, officers found Cortez with a gunshot wound. He died shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Initial findings by APD&#8217;s homicide detectives suggest Cortez broke into the house and then entered the homeowner&#8217;s bedroom, prompting him to shoot in self-defense, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NW Austin homeowner fatally shoots intruder in self-defense Police say a man was shot and killed after breaking into a northwest Austin home last month. It happened Saturday, Oct. 21, in the 10500 block of Foundation Road, in a neighborhood just off FM 620. The Austin Police Department says officers responded to the home at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97968\" 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-97968","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\/97968","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=97968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97969,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97968\/revisions\/97969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}