{"id":377920,"date":"2010-03-01T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f4f32ef970c"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T23:14:56","slug":"minkler-shootout-claims-another-officer%e2%80%99s-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/377920","title":{"rendered":"Minkler shootout claims another officer\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" from=\"\" id=\"TB_Image\" in=\"\" life=\"\" minkler,=\"\" monday=\"\" morning.=\"\" removed=\"\" s=\"\" shooting=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.fresnobee.com\/smedia\/2010\/03\/01\/10\/bejar.standalone.prod_affiliate.8.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0pt 5px 5px 0pt; float: left; width: 202px; height: 157px;\" support=\"\" was=\"\" \/>A second Fresno County law enforcement officer has died after being shot last week by a barricaded arson suspect.\n<\/p>\n<p> Reedley police Officer Javier Bejar had been on life support at a Fresno hospital since the daylong standoff Feb. 25. He died Monday morning, Reedley city officials said.\n<\/p>\n<p> Some 200 officers from area departments converged on the tiny unincorporated town of Minkler after two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-minkler27-2010feb27,0,6928365.story\">Fresno County sheriff&#39;s deputies were shot<\/a> while trying to serve a search warrant. One of them, Joel Wahlenmaier, died within hours. The other deputy is recovering.\n<\/p>\n<p> Hundreds of rounds were fired between the suspect&#39;s mobile home and police who had cordoned off the area. The alleged shooter, Ricky Liles, 51, apparently took his own life, police have said.\n<\/p>\n<p> Bejar, 28, was named officer of the year in his agricultural community in 2007.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steve Chawkins<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Reedley PD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second Fresno County law enforcement officer has died after being shot last week by a barricaded arson suspect. Reedley police Officer Javier Bejar had been on life support at a Fresno hospital since the daylong standoff Feb. 25. He died Monday morning, Reedley city officials said. Some 200 officers from area departments converged on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}