{"id":735070,"date":"2010-05-27T18:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=159961"},"modified":"2010-05-27T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:44:26","slug":"man-shoots-att-employee-is-killed-by-off-duty-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/735070","title":{"rendered":"Man shoots AT&amp;T employee, is killed by off-duty cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ATT%2Bshooting%2B07.jpeg?resize=320%2C240\" alt=\"\" title=\"ATT+shooting+07\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159962\" \/>A 79-year-old man from Utica, NY entered an AT&#038;T store with a hit list of names and a 357 Magnum. He opened fired, hitting one employee, before an off-duty police officer who was shopping at the store pulled  his own gun and shot the attacker dead.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter, Abraham Dicken, had held a grudge against the store&#8217;s employees for months, even threatening them with a gun once before. His hit-list contained the names of six employees.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t the first time that Dicken had been in the AT&#038;T store and given the staff trouble. Authorities said that he had been in the store numerous times in the past, even brandishing a handgun to employees. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wktv.com\/news\/local\/95032689.html\">via WKTV<\/A> via <A HREf=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\">Giz<\/A><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/zs31R6TQTJfTSipCLL8zeL4pBEI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/zs31R6TQTJfTSipCLL8zeL4pBEI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/zs31R6TQTJfTSipCLL8zeL4pBEI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/zs31R6TQTJfTSipCLL8zeL4pBEI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=tWElni6ncx8:txhQ3DEwWVM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=tWElni6ncx8:txhQ3DEwWVM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=tWElni6ncx8:txhQ3DEwWVM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=tWElni6ncx8:txhQ3DEwWVM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=tWElni6ncx8:txhQ3DEwWVM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 79-year-old man from Utica, NY entered an AT&#038;T store with a hit list of names and a 357 Magnum. He opened fired, hitting one employee, before an off-duty police officer who was shopping at the store pulled his own gun and shot the attacker dead. The shooter, Abraham Dicken, had held a grudge against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35dY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}