{"id":8609,"date":"2011-07-21T15:38:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T19:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2011-07-21T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T16:08:05","slug":"woman-shoots-at-pitbull-kills-husband-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8609","title":{"rendered":"Woman Shoots  At Pitbull, Kills  Husband Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MISSISSIPPI &#8212; Police in Mississippi say a woman opened fire on a puppy that had threatened children, but wound up shooting and killing her husband.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses tell police that the pit bull named &#8220;Cocaine&#8221; had lunged at some children and tried to attack them on Friday. The dead man&#8217;s son says the children were taken inside and his father picked the dog up.<\/p>\n<p>It was then that police say <strong>Betty Walker<\/strong> fired twice, hitting the dog once and her husband once in the chest. Jackson police spokeswoman<strong> Colendula Green<\/strong> says the death of 53-year-old <strong>Robert Walker<\/strong> appears to have been accidental. She says a Hinds County grand jury will decide whether to charge <strong>Betty Walker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Animal control officers have taken the dog, and its owner could face charges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: Lazarius Montgomery And His Pitbull, Cocaine.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MISSISSIPPI &#8212; Police in Mississippi say a woman opened fire on a puppy that had threatened children, but wound up shooting and killing her husband. Witnesses tell police that the pit bull named &#8220;Cocaine&#8221; had lunged at some children and tried to attack them on Friday. The dead man&#8217;s son says the children were taken [&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-8609","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\/8609","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=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}