{"id":112882,"date":"2018-05-23T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=112882"},"modified":"2018-05-23T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T15:57:07","slug":"why-was-the-naval-spokesman-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/23\/why-was-the-naval-spokesman-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was the naval spokesman shot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112860\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112860\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Hospital-Central-Diario-Libre-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although on Monday, 21 May 2018, the National Police explained that naval spokesman Augusto Alberto Lizardo Gonz\u00e1lez was shot during an armed robbery as the assailants intended to steal Lizard Gonzalez\u2019s pistol. However, according to witnesses, this was not the case. The witnesses, who do not want to be identified, have said that there were several men watching him from a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors said that the vehicle was parked at the intersection of Privada Street with Paseo de los Indios, minutes before 8 pm when the shooting happened, The vehicle was parked in a dark area, with no lights on, and was approached by a man on a motorcycle. A man got out of the vehicle and mounted the back of the motorcycle and they rode towards the apartment of Lizardo who was there with his children.<\/p>\n<p>The witnesses went on to say that Lizardo was in front of his car when one of the men aimed a gun at him and said, \u201cDo you remember me? This is how we wanted to meet you.\u201d There was then a struggle during which the man on the motorcycle shot twice at point blank rage, to which Lizardo tried to respond to but his firearm jammed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/noticias\/sucesos\/testigos-contradicen-version-de-la-policia-sobre-agresion-a-tiros-a-vocero-de-la-armada-EY9919446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23 May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although on Monday, 21 May 2018, the National Police explained that naval spokesman Augusto Alberto Lizardo Gonz\u00e1lez was shot during an armed robbery as the assailants intended to steal Lizard Gonzalez\u2019s pistol. However, according to witnesses, this was not the case. The witnesses, who do not want to be identified, have said that there were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/23\/why-was-the-naval-spokesman-shot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}