{"id":25918,"date":"2023-06-17T00:39:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=25918"},"modified":"2023-06-17T00:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:39:59","slug":"breaking-news-attempted-murder-suspect-shoots-man-as-he-chases-him-down-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=25918","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Attempted murder suspect shoots man as he chases him down street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Tuscaloosa County Violent Crimes Unit has arrested 41-year-old Dustin Jermaine Lavender.  Lavender is charged with attempted murder, receiving stolen property and prohibited from carrying firearms to a certain person (felon in possession of a gun).<\/p>\n<p>Tuscaloosa Police were called to the 3200 block of Stillman Blvd shortly after 3pm to respond to a shooting.  Once there, witnesses reported seeing a man chasing and shooting at another man down the road.  Investigators determined the victim and Lavender were contract employees working at a nearby business when they got into a fight over a disagreement.  The victim left the business walking away after the fight.  That&#8217;s when officers say Lavender pulled a gun from his vehicle and chased the victim while shooting him.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was not hit.  The gun was recovered and found to be stolen.  Lavender is a convicted felon who is not allowed to carry a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Lavender is currently in jail on $90,000 cash bail.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvua23.com\/breaking-news-attempted-murder-suspect-shoots-at-man-while-chasing-him-down-the-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tuscaloosa County Violent Crimes Unit has arrested 41-year-old Dustin Jermaine Lavender. Lavender is charged with attempted murder, receiving stolen property and prohibited from carrying firearms to a certain person (felon in possession of a gun). Tuscaloosa Police were called to the 3200 block of Stillman Blvd shortly after 3pm to respond to a shooting. Once there, witnesses reported seeing a man chasing and shooting at another man down the road. Investigators determined the victim and Lavender were contract employees working at a nearby business when they got into a fight over a disagreement. The victim left the business walking&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25920,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918\/revisions\/25920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}