{"id":105795,"date":"2024-06-03T18:03:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/man-literally-dodges-bullet-thanks-to-his-chain-necklace-just-incredible\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:03:30","slug":"man-literally-dodges-bullet-thanks-to-his-chain-necklace-just-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/man-literally-dodges-bullet-thanks-to-his-chain-necklace-just-incredible\/","title":{"rendered":"Man literally dodges bullet thanks to his chain necklace: &#8216;Just incredible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-03\/Getty_042324_PoliceTape2-STOCK.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Getty Images &#8211; STOCK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(COMMERCE CITY, Colo.) &#8212; A man in Colorado literally dodged a bullet thanks to his chain, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was wearing a silver chain, about 10 millimeters in width, when he got into an argument with an armed man on Tuesday, according to police in Commerce City, just outside of Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect fired, and instead of hitting the victim in the neck, the .22-caliber bullet got lodged in the chain, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim only suffered a puncture wound, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d say he really dodged a bullet,&#8221; police said, &#8220;but in reality, he LODGED a bullet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The chain &#8220;is likely the only reason the victim of a shooting we responded to yesterday is still alive,&#8221; police said. &#8220;Just incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who was not named, was arrested and is facing attempted homicide charges, police said.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images &#8211; STOCK (COMMERCE CITY, Colo.) &#8212; A man in Colorado literally dodged a bullet thanks to his chain, according to police. The victim was wearing a silver chain, about 10 millimeters in width, when he got into an argument with an armed man on Tuesday, according to police<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/man-literally-dodges-bullet-thanks-to-his-chain-necklace-just-incredible\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}