{"id":10200,"date":"2016-04-12T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T19:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10200"},"modified":"2016-04-12T17:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T21:14:51","slug":"ethiopian-man-shot-dead-while-asleep-in-his-kentucky-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10200","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Man Shot Dead While Asleep in His Kentucky Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"police-tape-crime-scene\"<\/a>An Ethiopian man in his 30s has been found dead from gunshot wounds in his Chickasaw, West Louisville home on Tuesday morning following an overnight shooting in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

At around 3 AM,\u00a0police officers were reportedly called to his home located on the 1000th block of Cecil Avenue.<\/p>\n

Louisville Metro Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell said the victim was found dead of apparent gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

The victim, whose identity has been withheld, was reportedly asleep when the shooting occurred<\/a>. The man was killed in his sleep from the shooting, which left five bullets holes in the wall.<\/p>\n

At the moment, not much information has been released about the deceased or the perpetrator. Reports indicate that the victim, who is from Ethiopia, worked at a liquor store behind his home.<\/p>\n

The deceased reportedly has a wife and an eight-month-old baby<\/a>, who both live in Ethiopia. He reportedly traveled to America before his child was born.<\/p>\n

According to his friends and family, the deceased cared for his family and sent his salaries back to Ethiopia for their upkeep.<\/p>\n

The family of the deceased in Ethiopia have reportedly not yet been contacted.<\/p>\n

Louisville Metro Police have made no arrests in connection with the shooting. However, homicide detectives are currently investigating the incident.<\/p>\n

The police officials have asked the members of the public with information regarding the shooting to call this anonymous tip line 502-574-LMPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Ethiopian man in his 30s has been found dead from gunshot wounds in his Chickasaw, West Louisville home on Tuesday morning following an overnight shooting in the neighborhood. At around 3 AM,\u00a0police officers were reportedly called to his home…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2872,2860,1],"tags":[4967,4744,4745,4595],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10203,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10200\/revisions\/10203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}