{"id":2814,"date":"2014-05-29T18:05:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2014-05-29T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:08:54","slug":"update-on-trooper-death-in-broome-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/update-on-trooper-death-in-broome-county\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE ON TROOPER DEATH IN BROOME COUNTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>60 year old Almond Upton of Florida charged with 1st degree murder following the death of Trooper Christopher Skinner on I-81 in the town of Chenango this afternoon. Troop C commanding officer Major Donald Faughnan said that Upton veered intentionally from the left lane, hit 2 cars stopped on the right shoulder &amp; intentionally struck trooper Skinner, killing him instantly. He fled into the woods, &amp; was apprehended after an hour, he was not visibly intoxicated, and was not wearing any clothing.\u00a0\u00a0 Upton was being held pending future court action, I-81 remains closed for the accident reconstruction team to gather evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>60 year old Almond Upton of Florida charged with 1st degree murder following the death of Trooper Christopher Skinner on I-81 in the town of Chenango this afternoon. Troop C commanding officer Major Donald Faughnan said that Upton veered intentionally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/update-on-trooper-death-in-broome-county\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Announcer-Guy-Icon-Head.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}