{"id":161882,"date":"2024-10-08T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=161882"},"modified":"2024-10-07T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T22:01:27","slug":"daily-fgs-277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=161882","title":{"rendered":"Daily FGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-161883 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/c96.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/c96.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/c96.jpg?w=384&amp;ssl=1 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gundigest.com\/more\/classic-guns\/why-the-mauser-c96-broomhandle-still-looms-large\">Mauser C96<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Walgreens employee with concealed carry license fatally shoots theft suspect<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The shooting was reported at around 2:10 a.m. outside Walgreens, 522 Torrence Ave., in Calumet City.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who allegedly stole items from a south suburban Walgreens and pointed a gun at workers was shot and killed by an employee who possessed a concealed carry license, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was reported at around 2:10 a.m. outside Walgreens, 522 Torrence Ave., in Calumet City. According to authorities, a 42-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman were approached by employees after exiting the store without paying for merchandise they had taken.<\/p>\n<p>Employees took the merchandise from the woman, who fled the scene on foot. The man, however, displayed a handgun when he was approached, police said. In return, a Walgreen&#8217;s employee, who possessed a valid concealed carry license, opened fire, striking the suspect, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was found by police driving a vehicle in the 1600 block of Sibley Boulevard near Yates Avenue and taken to a local trauma center, where he later died, police said. He was identified as Mario Almendarez, of Chicago, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1 \/ 0 \/ 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/walgreens-employee-with-concealed-carry-license-fatally-shoots-theft-suspect\/3566453\/\">NBC Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No word if the late Mr. Almendarez possessed a valid concealed carry license as well. Thanks, Gun Bunny.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.<br \/>\nDaniel Webster<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauser C96 Walgreens employee with concealed carry license fatally shoots theft suspect The shooting was reported at around 2:10 a.m. outside Walgreens, 522 Torrence Ave., in Calumet City. A man who allegedly stole items from a south suburban Walgreens and pointed a gun at workers was shot and killed by an employee who possessed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":161883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories","category-guest-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/c96.jpg?fit=384%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-G70","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}