{"id":2483,"date":"2005-07-11T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:48:27","slug":"suspect-taken-quietly-no-congratulatory-demonstrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/suspect-taken-quietly-no-congratulatory-demonstrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Taken Quietly; No Congratulatory Demonstrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/FD5A1BC66F18E4D6862570390017B7EF?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Family sets up murder suspect&#8217;s surrender<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kevin Johnson, the suspect sought in the shooting death of a Kirkwood police sergeant, was arrested without incident in north St. Louis County on Friday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, 19, was the subject of an intense manhunt after Tuesday&#8217;s shooting of police Sgt. William McEntee. McEntee was responding to a call in Kirkwood&#8217;s Meacham Park neighborhood just before 8 p.m. when he was shot several times.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson surrendered at the Ventura Village Apartments on Jacobi Drive and Nemnich Road, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Northwoods Police Chief Greg Moore said Friday night a detective in his department received a call from one of Johnson&#8217;s family members just after 5 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Moore said Johnson &#8220;wanted to turn himself in without any fanfare and without being harmed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The detective who received the call and another officer drove to pick up the family member, then headed to Ventura Village Apartments, Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, the relative directed them to an apartment near the back of the complex. Moore said another relative greeted them at the door.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was sitting on a couch in the apartment with his hands in front of him, Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>Moore described Johnson&#8217;s demeanor as &#8220;humble and cooperative&#8221; as he was taken into custody. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, in an alternate universe, the one painted by racial agitators, the cops don&#8217;t need an excuse to kill a young black man, and when one is suspected of shooting a middle-aged white police man, the police will surround his hideout and kill him and some nearby blacks in a hail of retaliatory gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t happen in this situation; as a matter of fact, the aphrension of the suspect was smooth and without conflict.  Perhaps we don&#8217;t live in the racial agitators&#8217; alternate universe after all, but this possibility hasn&#8217;t inspired any marches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family sets up murder suspect&#8217;s surrender: Kevin Johnson, the suspect sought in the shooting death of a Kirkwood police sergeant, was arrested without incident in north St. Louis County on Friday afternoon, police said. Johnson, 19, was the subject of an intense manhunt after Tuesday&#8217;s shooting of police Sgt. William McEntee. McEntee was responding to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19544,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/19544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}