{"id":201926,"date":"2020-01-06T20:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/pensacola-hotel-shooting-to-be-reviewed-as-possible-stand-your-ground-case.html"},"modified":"2020-01-06T20:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:03:39","slug":"pensacola-hotel-shooting-to-be-reviewed-as-possible-stand-your-ground-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/travel\/pensacola-hotel-shooting-to-be-reviewed-as-possible-stand-your-ground-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Pensacola hotel sharpened to be reviewed as probable stand-your-ground case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Naval bottom sharpened hits too tighten to home\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_ap vp_tg\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{muted:true,bContent:false,vidNum:1,docking:true}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{adsEnabled:true,awsPath:news\/national,byline:,canonicalURL:,contentSourceCode:APDM,createDate:2019-12-09T19:50:27.962Z,credit:AP,duration:77000,headline:Naval bottom sharpened hits too tighten to home,hlsURL:https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/b8c8a9c0-f528-445e-965b-0bbfa6bbd210\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8,id:2633293001,image:{url:https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-thumbnails\/b8c8a9c0-f528-445e-965b-0bbfa6bbd210_poster.jpg,opto:true},initialPublishDate:2019-12-09T19:50:59.662Z,keywords:USAT Video,mp4URL:https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/b8c8a9c0-f528-445e-965b-0bbfa6bbd210\/1080p_30fps.mp4,origin:AP Domestic,pageURL:{long:https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/nation\/2019\/12\/09\/naval-base-shooting-hits-too-close-home\/2633293001\/},promoBrief:The Naval Air Station Pensacola is not usually an mercantile engine for a northwest Florida city, it is also a heart and soul. (Dec. 9),publishDate:2019-12-09T19:50:59.662Z,series:,ssts:{leafName:nation,path:news\/nation,section:news,storysubject:,subsection:nation,subtopic:,taxonomyEntityDisplayName:Nation,topic:},tags:[{id:68532648-1f35-4dac-a1dd-26cd518c074d,name:USAT Video}],title:Naval bottom sharpened hits too tighten to home,url:\/videos\/news\/nation\/2019\/12\/09\/naval-base-shooting-hits-too-close-home\/2633293001\/}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/023dd_b8c8a9c0-f528-445e-965b-0bbfa6bbd210_poster.jpg\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" \/><\/button><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">PENSACOLA, Fla. \u2013 The Florida State&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s Office and\u00a0Escambia County Sheriff\u2019s Office devise to examination a hotel sharpened to\u00a0determine either a clerk\u00a0was fit in regulating lethal force underneath a <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">state&#8217;s self-defense\u00a0or stand-your-ground\u00a0laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Stephen Ballard, 37, was shot early Sunday morning during a earthy rumpus with a Quality Inn hotel clerk who after told law coercion that Ballard had been unfortunate business and refusing to leave hotel skill before initiating a earthy quarrel with a clerk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Human palm found cleared adult on Navarre Beach, Santa Rosa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office investigates<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The clerk shot Ballard, who was ecstatic to a internal sanatorium with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Amber Southard, a orator for the\u00a0Escambia County Sheriff\u2019s Office,\u00a0told a Pensacola News Journal, partial of a USA TODAY Network, that a aver had been released for Ballard\u2019s arrest, charging him with battery.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">However, she noted,\u00a0\u201cHe has not been arrested yet, because\u00a0he is still in a hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The sheriff\u2019s bureau perceived a news of a gunshot\u00a0victim during 4:20 a.m. EST Sunday during a Quality Inn located during 3 N. New Warrington Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThe clerk pronounced Ballard had been bothering people in their bedrooms and knocking on doors,\u201d Southard said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The clerk told law coercion that he asked Ballard to leave a property, though Ballard refused and pounded him,\u00a0she added.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;The clerk pulled a gun to urge himself,&#8221;\u00a0Southard noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille pronounced his office\u00a0will work with military to consider either a clerk&#8217;s use of lethal force was justifiable\u00a0under <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Florida&#8217;s stand-your-ground laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThe particular who dismissed a arms would be fit in regulating lethal force if a business fit that use of lethal force,\u201d he \u00a0told a Pensacola News Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Colin Warren-Hicks can be reached during colinwarrenhicks@pnj.com or 850-435-8680.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_ifg gnt_em__lp\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadInfogram\" data-v-id=\"_\/WjaNxnTCxTUz0X5rcT1P\" aria-label=\"Embedded infographic - Colin CTA Embed\" data-t-l=\"${tc}|inlineOEmbeds|open|infogram\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><\/a><\/aside>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/615000610\/0\/usatodaycomtravel-topstories~Pensacola-hotel-shooting-to-be-reviewed-as-possible-standyourground-case\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PENSACOLA, Fla. \u2013 The Florida State&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s Office and\u00a0Escambia County Sheriff\u2019s Office devise to examination a hotel sharpened to\u00a0determine either a clerk\u00a0was fit in regulating lethal force underneath a state&#8217;s self-defense\u00a0or stand-your-ground\u00a0laws. 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