{"id":643706,"date":"2013-02-25T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=218461"},"modified":"2013-02-25T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:24:31","slug":"79-year-old-shot-dead-stray-bullet-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643706","title":{"rendered":"79-Year Old Shot Dead, Stray Bullet To Blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 79-year old man was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment on Sunday, and police are trying to figure out exactly what happened. <\/p>\n<p>James Jackson was found with a gunshot wound to the neck after his wife&#8211;who is blind and wears a hearing aid&#8211;reported to a neighbor that she couldn&#8217;t wake him. Neighbors say he had no enemies and investigators found no evidence of a break-in, prompting them to believe he might have been the tragic victim of a stray bullet. Jackson&#8217;s wife would have been asleep at the time without her hearing aid, making it plausible that she never heard the shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said, &#8220;Joyce could you come down here, I can\u2019t wake up Tyrone&#8221;, he was laying in the couch in a puddle of blood,\u201d a <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2013\/02\/24\/man-79-shot-and-killed-in-bushwick\/\">neighbor said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson is described by those who knew him as a kind man who was quick to help anyone who needed it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a good person,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/72-year-old-killed-brooklyn-apartment-article-1.1272020\">said neighbor Eric Turner,<\/a> 47. \u201cIf you needed something, he&#8217;d always give it to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uWTPU44Rdt4:6-knRLp6zG4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uWTPU44Rdt4:6-knRLp6zG4:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=uWTPU44Rdt4:6-knRLp6zG4:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uWTPU44Rdt4:6-knRLp6zG4:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uWTPU44Rdt4:6-knRLp6zG4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=uWTPU44Rdt4:6-knRLp6zG4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uWTPU44Rdt4:6-knRLp6zG4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=uWTPU44Rdt4:6-knRLp6zG4:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=uWTPU44Rdt4:6-knRLp6zG4:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/uWTPU44Rdt4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 79-year old man was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment on Sunday, and police are trying to figure out exactly what happened. James Jackson was found with a gunshot wound to the neck after his wife&#8211;who is blind and wears a hearing aid&#8211;reported to a neighbor that she couldn&#8217;t wake him. 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