{"id":349,"date":"2005-06-22T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2006-02-11T20:13:22","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T03:13:22","slug":"aurora-mall-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Mall to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora Mall in Aurora, Colorado (a suburb just east of Denver) has had a reputation for a gang problem for years. Last night the danger peaked in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&#038;IKOBJECTID=a1d29341-0abe-421a-00eb-a9e2034c55dd&#038;TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf\">shooting in the mall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One person was shot and killed and two people were wounded after an argument escalated at the mall Tuesday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police were able to immediately apprehend the suspects and recover the weapons suspected in the shootings.<\/p>\n<p>I pray for the victims of the violence, that the family of the woman who was killed will be comforted in their grief and those wounded will recover.<\/p>\n<p>The business owners in the mall will have a tough time coming up. Who wants to go to a mall where people get shot? Yeah, the mall will struggle on for years while sales drop. Still, if you were a business owner, would you open a store there? More importantly would you shop there?<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t have people shooting others in public spaces with impunity and expect to remain a civilized society. These thugs didn&#8217;t care who they shot. One of their victims was a woman in her 50s or 60s who got caught in the crossfire.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for Aurora to get tough on gangs again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora Mall in Aurora, Colorado (a suburb just east of Denver) has had a reputation for a gang problem for years. Last night the danger peaked in a shooting in the mall. One person was shot and killed and two people were wounded after an argument escalated at the mall Tuesday night. Police were able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aurora Mall to close&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}