{"id":102516,"date":"2018-05-11T06:40:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=102516"},"modified":"2018-05-12T08:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T13:57:17","slug":"73-year-old-oakwood-man-in-jail-for-killing-grandson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/05\/11\/73-year-old-oakwood-man-in-jail-for-killing-grandson\/","title":{"rendered":"73-year-old in jail for killing grandson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OAKWOOD &#8212; An Oakwood area man who allegedly shot and killed his teenage grandson is currently incarcerated in Paulding County Jail awaiting an initial court appearance on a murder charge, according to Paulding County Sheriff Jason K. Landers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102519\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/William-Miller-II-mugshot-5-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>William Miller II<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>William R. Miller II, 73, was arrested and booked on one count of murder, an unclassified felony, for reportedly shooting his 19-year-old grandson, Evan Andrew Holcombe, in the chest. No information was provided on what type of gun was used in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sheriff Landers, deputies were dispatched to 15648 Road 1037 in Oakwood at 9:38 p.m. Thursday and found the Holcombe boy dead when they arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A representative of the Paulding County Coroner\u2019s Office was subsequently called to Miller&#8217;s Oakwood residence to coordinate sheriff\u2019s deputies investigating the crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff said both Miller and Holcombe lived together at the Road 1037 address, but provided no information on what motive Miller may have had for shooting his grandson.<\/p>\n<p>Miller will make an initial appearance in Paulding County Court via a closed video system at 9 a.m. Monday, May 14, on the murder charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information OAKWOOD &#8212; An Oakwood area man who allegedly shot and killed his teenage grandson is currently incarcerated in Paulding County Jail awaiting an initial court appearance on a murder charge, according to Paulding County Sheriff Jason K. Landers. William R. Miller II, 73, was arrested and booked on one count of murder, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 19:11:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}