{"id":9093,"date":"2015-02-03T13:45:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=9093"},"modified":"2015-02-03T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:14:10","slug":"coatesville-police-seek-extremely-dangerous-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=9093","title":{"rendered":"Update: Coatesville police nab &#8216;extremely dangerous&#8217; gunman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103986\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WANTED-JAMIL-BATTLE-263x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103986\" class=\" wp-image-1039861\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WANTED-JAMIL-BATTLE-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"WANTED-JAMIL-BATTLE\" width=\"184\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamil Battle<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Updated 4:10 p.m<\/strong>. with Battle&#8217;s arrest<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COATESVILLE \u2014 A manhunt for an individual they describe as &#8220;armed and extremely dangerous&#8221; ended Tuesday afternoon after city police said they apprehended a man wanted following a shooting, Jan. 30 at North 8th Avenue and East Diamond Streets.<\/p>\n<p>Police police said they took Jamil Battle into custody Tuesday afternoon in connection with the shooting and robbery of a city man, in the early morning hours of Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim \u2014 a 24-year-old man who was shot in the leg \u2014 said that Battle shot him for refusing to comply with his demands during a robbery.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Battle has been charged with attempted homicide, robbery and related\u00a0offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, before the arrest, police were warning that Battle was considered armed and extremely dangerous \u2014 and noted that Battle made a threat of having a shoot out with with police.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are also looking for what they described as \u00a0&#8220;a light skinned black male&#8221; who was with Battle during this incident.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Battle or the unidentified light skinned black male is\u00a0urged to contact the City of Coatesville Police Department at 610-384-2300 or 610-383-7000.<\/p>\n<p>Tips can be&#8217; submitted anonymously through our TIP411 system. TIPS BY TEXT: Text phone number\u00a0847411, use keyword &#8220;Coatesville&#8221;, type your tip and press send.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a cash reward being is offered by the Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers (1-800-4PA-TIPS) for anyone providing information leading to the arrest of Battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated 4:10 p.m. with Battle&#8217;s arrest COATESVILLE \u2014 A manhunt for an individual they describe as &#8220;armed and extremely dangerous&#8221; ended Tuesday afternoon after city police said they apprehended a man wanted following a shooting, Jan. 30 at North 8th Avenue and East Diamond Streets. Police police said they took Jamil Battle into custody Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[185,5371,5370,3178],"class_list":["post-9093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-coatesville","tag-east-diamond-street","tag-north-8th-avenue","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9102,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9093\/revisions\/9102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}