{"id":26452,"date":"2016-12-14T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/judges-sentences-man-for-attempted-murder-of-police-officer\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:03:05","slug":"judges-sentences-man-for-attempted-murder-of-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/judges-sentences-man-for-attempted-murder-of-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges sentences man for attempted murder of police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>A man who shot at an Anchorage police officer has been sentenced to more than 39 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>State prosecutors say 28-year-old Aaron Sullivan was convicted in March of attempted murder, weapons misconduct and failure to stop for a police officer. He was sentenced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Anchorage police officer Michael O\u2019Connor in October 2014 tried to stop Sullivan, who had outstanding parole warrants, as he drove.<\/p>\n<p>A chase ensued in east Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan crashed into Officer O\u2019Connor\u2019s patrol vehicle and fired three shots from a .44-caliber revolver at the officer. One shot narrowly missed O\u2019Connor. Two shots struck apartment buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan had two previous felony convictions involving guns.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton sentenced Sullivan to 38 years for the 2014 charges and 18 months for probation violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 A man who shot at an Anchorage police officer has been sentenced to more than 39 years in prison. State prosecutors say 28-year-old Aaron Sullivan was convicted in March of attempted murder, weapons misconduct and failure to stop for a police officer. He was sentenced Friday. Anchorage police officer Michael O\u2019Connor in October [&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-26452","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\/26452","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=26452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26452"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}