{"id":4318,"date":"2015-10-26T21:09:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T04:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/trooper-shoots-man-in-confrontation-on-kenai-peninsula\/"},"modified":"2015-10-26T21:09:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T04:09:27","slug":"trooper-shoots-man-in-confrontation-on-kenai-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/trooper-shoots-man-in-confrontation-on-kenai-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Trooper shoots man in confrontation on Kenai Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> Authorities say a state trooper has shot and killed a man during a confrontation on the Sterling Highway in the Kenai Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>According to a trooper dispatch, the trooper had pulled over a driver Saturday night after a short pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say the driver initiated a physical altercation with the trooper, who then fired his weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, whose identity has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Authorities say a state trooper has shot and killed a man during a confrontation on the Sterling Highway in the Kenai Peninsula. According to a trooper dispatch, the trooper had pulled over a driver Saturday night after a short pursuit. Troopers say the driver initiated a physical altercation with the trooper, who then [&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-4318","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\/4318","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=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}