{"id":1539,"date":"2006-09-11T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T17:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/mugger_shot_by_wheelchair-bound_grandmother_fists_pump_at_nra_public_relations_department.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:54:38","slug":"mugger_shot_by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/mugger_shot_by.html","title":{"rendered":"Mugger Shot By Wheelchair-Bound Grandmother; Fists Pump At NRA Public Relations Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Taking her .357 handgun to the shooting range&#8221; = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/crack__shot__granny_regionalnews_patrick_white_and_hasani_gittens.htm\">&#8220;packing heat on a routine trip to the cornerstore&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Margaret Johnson, 56, was taking her .357 handgun to the shooting range at 3 p.m. while riding in her electric wheelchair when she was approached by a thief on Lenox Avenue near 133rd Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s not much to it. Somebody tried to mug me and I shot him,&#8221; said Johnson. &#8220;It was very scary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attacker, Deron Johnson, 45, apparently thought the older, handicapped retiree was an easy mark, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she was a marksman.<\/p>\n<p>When Deron grabbed Margaret&#8217;s chain and tried to make a dash, she pulled out her gun and shot him, nailing him in the left elbow, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He dropped the loot and ran, but cops caught up with Deron by following his trail of blood about half a block.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Cops said Margaret has a license for the pistol, which allows her to keep it in her home and take it to the shooting range.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story doesn&#8217;t follow up to check the hours and\/or location of the firing range . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Taking her .357 handgun to the shooting range&#8221; = &#8220;packing heat on a routine trip to the cornerstore&#8221;: Margaret Johnson, 56, was taking her .357 handgun to the shooting range at 3 p.m. while riding in her electric wheelchair when she was approached by a thief on Lenox Avenue near 133rd Street, police said. &#8220;There&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}