{"id":307526,"date":"2018-12-27T07:37:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T07:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307526"},"modified":"2018-12-27T07:37:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T07:37:31","slug":"indian-origin-police-officer-shot-dead-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-origin-police-officer-shot-dead-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-origin police officer shot dead in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301486 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-696x476.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene.jpg 711w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-614x420.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A 33-year-old Indian-origin police officer in California was killed after being shot by an &#8220;armed&#8221; unidentified gunman while he was conducting a traffic stop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Corporal Ronil singh of the Newman Police Department was shot and killed during a traffic stop when he was working overtime on Christmas night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Stanislaus County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, which is leading the investigation, said, &#8220;A few moments later he called out &#8216;shots fired&#8217; over the radio.\u201d \u00a0Multiple agencies responded to assist, and Singh was found at the scene with gunshot wounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, the department said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It said, \u201cthe suspect had fled the scene in his vehicle before the police arrived.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The department is leading the investigation and have released surveillance photographs of the suspect and vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh is survived by his wife Anamika and a five-month old son.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 33-year-old Indian-origin police officer in California was killed after being shot by an &#8220;armed&#8221; unidentified gunman while he was conducting a traffic stop.\u00a0 Corporal Ronil singh of the Newman Police Department was shot and killed during a traffic stop when he was working overtime on Christmas night. The Stanislaus County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[1533,10430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307527,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307526\/revisions\/307527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}