{"id":4766,"date":"2011-03-21T16:28:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T20:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2011-03-21T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T20:28:28","slug":"haiti-police-dismiss-wyclef-jeans-claims-of-being-shot-say-he-cut-hand-on-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"Haiti Police Dismiss Wyclef Jean&#8217;s Claims Of Being Shot, Say He Cut Hand On Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haitian police are denying reports that singer <strong>Wyclef Jean<\/strong> was shot this weekend and instead claim the former Fugee was cut by glass.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, <strong>Wyclef<\/strong> issued a statement saying that he was shot in the hand while visiting the country of the eve of Presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Wyclef<\/strong>, he was exiting a vehicle to make a phone call when an unidentified assailant shot him in the hand around 11 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way I can explain it is that the bullet grazed me in my right hand. I heard blow, blow, blow and I just looked at my hand,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Local police however have dismissed <strong>Wyclef&#8217;s<\/strong> claims and say he was only cut by glass, not struck by a bullet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We met with the doctor who saw him and he confirmed <strong>Wyclef<\/strong> was cut by glass,&#8221; <strong>Vanel Lacroix,<\/strong> police chief in Petionville, told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haitian police are denying reports that singer Wyclef Jean was shot this weekend and instead claim the former Fugee was cut by glass. As previously reported, Wyclef issued a statement saying that he was shot in the hand while visiting the country of the eve of Presidential elections. According to Wyclef, he was exiting a [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","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=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}