{"id":11479,"date":"2011-11-21T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T20:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11479"},"modified":"2011-11-18T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T20:49:46","slug":"man-gives-homeless-man-two-bucks-gets-punched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11479","title":{"rendered":"Man Gives Homeless Man Two Bucks,  Gets Punched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8211; A 32-year-old man was punched in the head after giving a homeless man $2 on his way out of a Chicago Transit Authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timothy Anderson<\/strong> was begging for money on a CTA train just after 6 p.m. Sunday near the Belmont elevated station in the 900 block of West Belmont Avenue, police said. The victim gave reportedly<strong> Anderson<\/strong> the money and walked off the train.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently displeased, <strong>Anderson<\/strong> followed and punched the man in the head. The victim toppled over, hitting his head on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Several witnesses ran after Anderson and called the police. Police caught <strong>Anderson<\/strong> in the 3100 block of North Clark Street.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. He suffered a cut to his head and other facial injuries. He positively identified Anderson to the police.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anderson<\/strong> is charged with one felony count of aggravated battery and held on a $150,000 bond. A preliminary hearing is set for Nov. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8211; A 32-year-old man was punched in the head after giving a homeless man $2 on his way out of a Chicago Transit Authority. Timothy Anderson was begging for money on a CTA train just after 6 p.m. Sunday near the Belmont elevated station in the 900 block of West Belmont Avenue, police said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}