{"id":39961,"date":"2016-05-18T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T14:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39961"},"modified":"2016-05-18T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T14:39:26","slug":"jw-tow-truck-driver-shot-after-argument-with-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/05\/jw-tow-truck-driver-shot-after-argument-with-a-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"J&W Tow Truck Driver Shot After Argument With A Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help tracking down an unknown male, and the silver Nissan he was driving, after a verbal altercation turned violent yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The victim, who is employed by J&W tow truck company, pulled into the Old Fashion Auto, located at 1209 Homestead Road in Lehigh just after\u00a05 p.m.\u00a0on Monday, May 16.\u00a0 As he was unloading a vehicle from his truck, an unknown Hispanic male became agitated because he felt the driver was blocking the driveway.\u00a0 The two men argued for a short time, leading to the suspect pulling out a semi-automatic handgun and shooting the driver once, causing a non-fatal injury.\u00a0 The suspect fled eastbound on Homestead Road in a newer model silver Nissan, equipped with chrome rims and a black top.\u00a0 There was also an unknown female in the passenger side seat.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the identity and whereabouts of the suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477).\u00a0 All callers will remain anonymous and will be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.\u00a0 Tips may also be made online at\u00a0www.swflcrimestoppers.org<\/a><http:\/\/www.swflcrimestoppers.org\/<\/a>> or by texting a tip to CRIMES (274637) Keyword: REWARD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers is asking for the public’s help tracking down an unknown male, and the silver Nissan he was driving, after a verbal altercation turned violent yesterday afternoon.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}