{"id":17604,"date":"2025-10-09T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17604"},"modified":"2025-10-09T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:00:30","slug":"heroic-milwaukee-officer-killed-elijah-wilks-after-being-pistol-whipped-shot-at-mpa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17604","title":{"rendered":"Heroic Milwaukee Officer Killed Elijah Wilks After Being \u2018Pistol-Whipped\u2019 &amp; Shot At, MPA Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/heroic-milwaukee-officer-killed-elijah-wilks-after-being-pistol-whipped-shot-at-mpa-says\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/heroic-milwaukee-officer-killed-elijah-wilks-after-being-pistol-whipped-shot-at-mpa-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MixCollage-09-Oct-2025-03-37-PM-6053.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"milwaukee police\" title=\"elijah wilks\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An off-duty Milwaukee police officer was \u201cpistol-whipped and shot at\u201d by another motorist, Elijah Wilks, after a minor traffic incident on his way to work Thursday, prompting him to shoot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/heroic-milwaukee-officer-killed-elijah-wilks-after-being-pistol-whipped-shot-at-mpa-says\/ An off-duty Milwaukee police officer was \u201cpistol-whipped and shot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":17606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17607,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions\/17607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}