{"id":2283,"date":"2009-06-01T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2009-06-02T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:19:10","slug":"breaking-military-recruiter-murdered-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/breaking-military-recruiter-murdered-in-arkansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Military Recruiter Murdered in Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A gunman opened fire<\/a> on two soldiers outside an Army Recruiting center in Little Rock Arkansas earlier today. Both of the victims were taken to a nearby hospital, where one of them died a short time later:<\/p>\n

A gunman opened fire Monday at an army recruitment center in Little Rock, Ark., killing one army recruiter and seriously wounding another, FOX16.com reported.<\/p>\n

A man in a black SUV drove to the recruitment office and began shooting at around 10:19 a.m., a spokesman with the Little Rock police department told FOX News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Police reportedly have a suspect in custody.<\/p>\n

Jonn Lilyea has more at This Ain’t Hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (Tuesday, June 2, 2009):<\/p>\n

The shooter has been identified<\/a> as 23 year old Carlos Bledsoe (A.K.A. Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad) a Muslim convert with a grudge against the U.S. military. Bledsoe plead not guilt to capital murder at his arraignment today:<\/p>\n

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A Muslim convert who said he was against the U.S. military pleaded not guilty Tuesday to capital murder in connection with the shooting of two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting center.<\/div>\n

One soldier died in the attack Monday, police said.<\/p>\n

Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, was ordered held without bail at a hearing Tuesday in Little Rock. He is charged in the death of Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway, outside the Army Navy Career Center in Little Rock.<\/p>\n

“This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular, and that’s why he did what he did,” Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said.<\/p>\n

“He has converted to (Islam) here in the past few years,” Hastings said. “We’re not completely clear on what he was upset about. He had never been in the military.<\/p>\n

“He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them. That’s what he said.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A gunman opened fire on two soldiers outside an Army Recruiting center in Little Rock Arkansas earlier today. Both of the victims were taken to a nearby hospital, where one of them died a short time later: A gunman opened fire Monday at an army recruitment center in Little Rock, Ark., killing one army recruiter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68,224],"tags":[701,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-2283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crime","7":"category-military","8":"tag-arkansas","9":"tag-shootings","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-AP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2946,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/05\/breaking-fort-hood-gunman-alive-in-custody\/","url_meta":{"origin":2283,"position":0},"title":"Breaking: Fort Hood Gunman Alive, in Custody","author":"Jeff","date":"November 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From Fox News: A military doctor who reportedly feared an impending war deployment is in custody as the sole suspect in a shooting rampage at the Army's Fort Hood that left 12 dead and 31 wounded, an Army official said Thursday night. 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