{"id":3307,"date":"2008-04-02T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2008-04-02T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T13:59:00","slug":"boys_of_bummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/boys_of_bummer.html","title":{"rendered":"Boys Of Bummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/04022008\/news\/regionalnews\/stadium_traffic_jam_spells_doom_for_gunm_104629.htm\">But with congestion pricing . . .<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A shooting suspect blew his brains out after the Con Ed truck he had stolen to flee cops got caught in traffic outside Yankee Stadium just as last night&#8217;s game ended, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man &#8212; who earlier had shot his girlfriend in the shoulder after a violent argument &#8212; killed himself as pursuing officers closed in on him. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect had gotten into a fight with the woman near East 151st Street and Courtlandt Avenue, about 20 blocks from the Stadium, at about 10 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>He suddenly drew a gun and shot her in the shoulder, a police source said. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The gunman then hopped into a Con Ed truck that was left with its engine running at a work site. <\/p>\n<p>When a utility worker confronted him, the suspect pointed a gun at his head and sped off. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, he smashed into a police car, but got away. <\/p>\n<p>As he approached the Stadium, at East 161st Street near the Macombs Dam Bridge, he got stuck in traffic. When cops approached the truck, they heard a gunshot and found the driver dead with a bullet wound to the head, authorities said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But with congestion pricing . . .: A shooting suspect blew his brains out after the Con Ed truck he had stolen to flee cops got caught in traffic outside Yankee Stadium just as last night&#8217;s game ended, sources said. The unidentified man &#8212; who earlier had shot his girlfriend in the shoulder after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,42,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_bronx","category-the_screenwriters_idea_bag","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}