{"id":11807,"date":"2011-12-12T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2011-12-12T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:43:38","slug":"oakland-toddler-dies-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11807","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Toddler Dies After Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, CA &#8212; A 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head during the filming of a rap music video in Oakland was taken off life support Friday.<strong> Hiram Lawrence<\/strong>, would have turned 2 on Dec. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The boy&#8217;s family had held out hope that he would show some brain activity, but doctors at Children&#8217;s Hospital Oakland concluded after multiple tests that he was brain dead from the injuries he suffered in the shooting last month.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the hospital, the boy&#8217;s mother, <strong>Brittany Houston<\/strong> called for an end to the city&#8217;s violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The shootings need to end. I shouldn&#8217;t have to lose my baby to a gunshot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hiram<\/strong> was being held by his father, also named <strong>Hiram Lawrence<\/strong>, when gunfire erupted as about 20 people gathered outside a west Oakland liquor store Nov. 28, police said. Six other people were wounded, including <strong>Hiram&#8217;s<\/strong> father, who was shot in the hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, CA &#8212; A 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head during the filming of a rap music video in Oakland was taken off life support Friday. Hiram Lawrence, would have turned 2 on Dec. 28. The boy&#8217;s family had held out hope that he would show some brain activity, but doctors at Children&#8217;s [&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-11807","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\/11807","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=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}