{"id":2798,"date":"2003-02-21T14:06:59","date_gmt":"2003-02-21T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2003-02-21T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2003-02-21T14:06:59","slug":"another-gunloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2798","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER GUNLOON&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My hometown&#8230;from today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/content\/bln\/nmrobbery21.html\" target=\"browser\">Daily Breeze<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A Torrance stamp and coin shop dealer shot and wounded a would-be armed robber Thursday, prompting support from neighbors who said the criminal &#8220;picked the wrong guy&#8221; to hold up.<br \/>\nThe 79-year-old owner, reportedly robbed three or four times in the past year, fired one shot at the gunman at 1:50 p.m., hitting him in the hip. The suspected robber, Joshua Edward Reyes, 20, of Torrance was booked at County-USC Medical Center jail ward in Boyle Heights, Torrance police Lt. Patrick Shortall said.<br \/>\n<b>&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\nShortall said the shooting appears to be a <b>&#8220;robbery that was interrupted by the victim.&#8221;<\/b> Police will present their reports on the shooting to the District Attorney\u0092s Office to determine whether the shooting was self-defense.<br \/>\nThe shooting was the second time in less than a year that a downtown Torrance business owner fired a gun at a robber.<br \/>\n<b>&#8230;<\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The crime rate in Torrance (12.7\/1000) is 43% of the rate in Los Angeles, and 75% of the rate in Beverly Hills.<br \/>\n&#8230;<i>&#8220;robbery that was interrupted by the victim.&#8221;<\/i> Has kind of a good sound to it.<br \/>\nI have a correspondent who forwards me, using fake email addresses, stories about tragedies involving people hurting others with guns. I know, and we all know, about these because they are well-reported in the press.<br \/>\nIn much of the country, stories like this one seldom get reported.<br \/>\nSo, mystery correspondent, this one&#8217;s for <b>you<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hometown&#8230;from today&#8217;s Daily Breeze: A Torrance stamp and coin shop dealer shot and wounded a would-be armed robber Thursday, prompting support from neighbors who said the criminal &#8220;picked the wrong guy&#8221; to hold up. The 79-year-old owner, reportedly robbed three or four times in the past year, fired one shot at the gunman at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}