{"id":10785,"date":"2015-04-29T15:58:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10785"},"modified":"2015-04-29T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:59:58","slug":"video-heroic-mail-carrier-put-himself-between-shooter-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/04\/29\/video-heroic-mail-carrier-put-himself-between-shooter-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Heroic Mail Carrier Put Himself Between Shooter, Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:30 a.m. on his very first delivery of the morning, mail carrier Scott Gallegos was approached by a woman near Madison Avenue in Carmichael. He heard a knock on the window of his truck. She was covered in blood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had been shot, she started to fade out, I sat her down,\u201d Gallegos said. \u201cI saw a wound on her. I laid her down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then, to his surprise, he said more shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p>Gallegos, who has been a mail carrier for only four weeks, got between the woman and the alleged shooter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see something like that, instinct takes over,\u201d he said. \u201cYou just do what you have to do.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/fox40.com\/2015\/04\/28\/heroic-mail-carrier-put-himself-between-shooter-victim-during-carmichael-standoff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script height=\"360px\" width=\"475px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=e94d1153704449a897d545a2af16e53c&#038;ec=9namRzdDqB7uTH6AYynNTjwsr8mk0Kp3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brave-Carrier-Gallegos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10786\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brave-Carrier-Gallegos-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Brave Carrier Gallegos\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brave-Carrier-Gallegos-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brave-Carrier-Gallegos.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 9:30 a.m. on his very first delivery of the morning, mail carrier Scott Gallegos was approached by a woman near Madison Avenue in Carmichael. He heard a knock on the window of his truck. She was covered in blood. \u201cShe had been shot, she started to fade out, I sat her down,\u201d Gallegos said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10789,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions\/10789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}