{"id":967,"date":"2025-02-02T11:54:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T11:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2025-02-02T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T11:54:51","slug":"dad-fatally-beats-man-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Dad Fatally Beats Man Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>41-year-old father Melvin Harris pleaded to ma nslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix father who maintained he klled a man while protecting\u00a0his daughter had been originally charged with second-degree murder\u00a0in , 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which occurred on August 2, 2018, unfolded\u00a0after Harris arrived at the QT near 19th and Dunlap avenues. When his\u00a0daughter walked out, she said that a man had tried to enter her locked\u00a0stall in the women\u2019s bathroom. Security escorted the man out,and Harris\u2019\u00a0daughter pointed him out. Harris approached the security guard and stated\u00a0that he was going to take care of the situation himself. According to witnesses,\u00a0Harris punched Leon Armstrong in the face, knocking him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>He beat\u00a0him up some more then left. Armstrong suffered a severe brain injury and died a\u00a0few days later.Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in November 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>41-year-old father Melvin Harris pleaded to ma nslaughter. &nbsp; The Phoenix father who maintained he klled a man while protecting\u00a0his daughter had been originally charged with second-degree murder\u00a0in , 2018. &nbsp; &nbsp; The incident,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}