{"id":5624,"date":"2014-02-17T22:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2014-02-17T22:18:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:18:21","slug":"police-shoot-kill-80-year-old-man-in-his-own-bed-dont-find-the-drugs-they-were-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/02\/17\/police-shoot-kill-80-year-old-man-in-his-own-bed-dont-find-the-drugs-they-were-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Shoot, Kill 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed, Don&#8217;t Find the Drugs They Were Looking For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies approached the house, and what happened next is where things get murky. The deputies said they announced their presence upon entering and were met in the hallway by the 80-year-old man, wielding a gun and stumbling towards them. The deputies later changed the story when the massive bloodstains on Mallory\u2019s mattress indicated to investigators that he\u2019d most likely been in bed at the time of the shooting. Investigators also found that an audio recording of the incident revealed a discrepancy in the deputies\u2019 original narrative: Before listening to the audio recording, [Sgt. John] Bones believed that he told Mallory to \u201cDrop the gun\u201d prior to the shooting. The recording revealed, however, that his commands to \u201cDrop the gun\u201d occurred immediately after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>When it was all over, Eugene Mallory died of six gunshot wounds from Sgt. John Bones\u2019 MP-5 9mm submachine gun. When a coroner arrived, he found the loaded .22 caliber pistol the two deputies claimed Mallory had pointed at them on the bedside table.<\/p>\n<p>Mallory had not fired of a single shot. The raid turned up no evidence of methamphetamine on the property.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry140218-011843\">Police Shoot, Kill 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed, Don&#8217;t Find the Drugs They Were Looking For<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies approached the house, and what happened next is where things get murky. The deputies said they announced their presence upon entering and were met in the hallway by the 80-year-old man, wielding a gun and stumbling towards them. The deputies later changed the story when the massive bloodstains on Mallory\u2019s mattress indicated to investigators that he\u2019d most likely been in bed at the time of the shooting. Investigators also found that an audio recording of the incident revealed a discrepancy in the deputies\u2019 original narrative: Before listening to the audio recording, [Sgt. John] Bones believed that he told Mallory to \u201cDrop the gun\u201d prior to the shooting. The recording revealed, however, that his commands to \u201cDrop the gun\u201d occurred immediately after the shooting. When it was all over, Eugene Mallory died of six gunshot wounds from Sgt. John Bones\u2019 MP-5 9mm submachine gun. When a coroner arrived, he found the loaded .22 caliber pistol the two deputies claimed Mallory had pointed at them on the bedside table. Mallory had not fired of a single shot. The raid turned up no evidence of methamphetamine on the property. via Police Shoot, Kill 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed, Don&#8217;t Find the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1351,1904],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-police","tag-war-on-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}