{"id":36906,"date":"2025-01-07T03:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36906"},"modified":"2025-01-07T03:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T09:45:58","slug":"1-killed-and-1-injured-in-a-shooting-at-the-honduran-consulate-near-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36906","title":{"rendered":"1 killed and 1 injured in a shooting at the Honduran consulate near Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">DORAVILLE, Ga. \u2014 A shooting Monday at the Honduran consulate just outside&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/atlanta\">Atlanta<\/a>&nbsp;left one person dead and another injured, and a suspect was in custody, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The person who was killed was a Mexican citizen who worked as a security guard at the consulate, the Mexican Foreign Affairs secretary said in a statement posted on the social platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Doraville police responded to a report of gunshots around 2:30 p.m. and found two people who had been shot, city spokesperson Emily Heenan said. One of the people was declared dead at the scene and the other was taken to a hospital for treatment, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A suspect was taken into custody at the scene and was taken to the Doraville police station for questioning, Heenan said. She did not provide any information about a possible motive for the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The shooting happened right outside the front entrance of the consulate, Heenan said. Officers remained at the scene to interview witnesses and gather evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Heenan said she couldn\u2019t release any more information about the victims or the suspected shooter because police were still in the process of contacting family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Mexican government has offered help to local authorities and the family of the Mexican citizen and asked for a transparent investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/1-killed-1-injured-shooting-honduran-consulate-atlanta-rcna186517\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DORAVILLE, Ga. \u2014 A shooting Monday at the Honduran consulate just outside&nbsp;Atlanta&nbsp;left one person dead and another injured, and a suspect was in custody, authorities said. The person who was killed was a Mexican citizen who worked as a security guard at the consulate, the Mexican Foreign Affairs secretary said in a statement posted on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[2037,31920,6258,31304,1530],"class_list":["post-36906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-atlanta","tag-honduras-consulate","tag-one-dead","tag-one-injured","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36908,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36906\/revisions\/36908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}