{"id":21301,"date":"2017-12-07T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/father-of-child-who-shot-himself-arrested-on-weapons-charge\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:24:28","slug":"father-of-child-who-shot-himself-arrested-on-weapons-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/father-of-child-who-shot-himself-arrested-on-weapons-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of child who shot himself arrested on weapons charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; The father of a 5-year-old Alaska boy who fatally shot himself has been arrested on a federal weapons count.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Johnnson is charged with being a felon in possession of a gun. Federal public defender Gary Colbath said his office does not comment on pending cases.<\/p>\n<p>Anchorage police early Tuesday took a call on the shooting at a home. Police determined Christian Johnnson found the gun in a bedroom nightstand drawer and shot himself in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Police recovered a .40-caliber pistol and ammunition for other guns.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Johnnson in May 2012 was convicted of drug possession with intent to distribute.<\/p>\n<p>Johnnson told investigators he bought the pistol for his fiance and taught her how to use it. He said a friend asked him to hold several rifles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; The father of a 5-year-old Alaska boy who fatally shot himself has been arrested on a federal weapons count. Anthony Johnnson is charged with being a felon in possession of a gun. Federal public defender Gary Colbath said his office does not comment on pending cases. Anchorage police early Tuesday took a call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21301"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}