{"id":31115,"date":"2020-05-06T01:27:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=31115"},"modified":"2020-05-06T01:29:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T23:29:11","slug":"police-shooting-at-cuban-embassy-is-%e2%80%98suspected-hate-crime%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=31115","title":{"rendered":"Police: Shooting at Cuban Embassy is \u2018suspected hate crime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><small>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Photo- https:\/\/twitter.com\/JadeElliottTV\/status\/1255810325036666886\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EW2I0Z8U4AMZB8q?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"363\" \/><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/small><small><\/small><small> <\/small><small><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press<\/em> |Posted: Thu 6:04 AM, Apr 30, 2020 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|Updated: Thu 2:58 PM, Apr 30, 2020<\/div>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><small><\/small><small><\/small><small><\/small><small><\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A man armed with an assault rifle  was arrested after opening fire outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington  early Thursday, his bullets tearing holes into the walls and pillars  near the front entrance in what authorities suspect was a hate crime.<br \/>\nThe  gunfire broke out around 2 a.m. outside the embassy in northwest  Washington. Metropolitan Police Department officers were called to the  scene after neighbors reported hearing gunshots, authorities said. No  injuries were reported.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Officers found the man, Alexander Alazo, 42, of Aubrey, Texas, armed  with an assault rifle, and they and took him into custody without  incident, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A police report obtained by The Associated Press  describes the shooting as a \u201csuspected hate crime\u201d and says Alazo  \u201cknowingly discharged multiple rounds from an AK-47 rifle into the Cuban  Embassy.\u201d But the report also says Alazo\u2019s motivation is unknown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Officers recovered the rifle,  ammunition and a white powdery substance that was found in a small  baggie after Alazo&#8217;s arrest, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alazo was arrested on charges of possessing  an unregistered firearm and ammunition, assault with intent to kill and  possessing a high-capacity magazine, a U.S. Secret Service spokeswoman  said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wifr.com\/content\/news\/DC-police-Suspect-arrested-for-shooting-at-Cuban-Embassy--570072571.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.wifr.com\/content\/news\/DC-police-Suspect-arrested-for-shooting-at-Cuban-Embassy&#8211;570072571.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press |Posted: Thu 6:04 AM, Apr 30, 2020 \u00a0|Updated: Thu 2:58 PM, Apr 30, 2020 WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A man armed with an assault rifle&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31120,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31115\/revisions\/31120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}