{"id":170452,"date":"2023-09-20T03:55:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T08:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=170452"},"modified":"2023-09-20T03:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T08:55:18","slug":"vwpd-homicide-investigation-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/09\/20\/vwpd-homicide-investigation-ongoing\/","title":{"rendered":"VWPD: homicide investigation ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A local death ruled as a homicide remains under investigation by the Van Wert Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara Ganger, 43, of Van Wert, died of a gunshot wound at Van Wert West Apartments on W. Main St. Her body was discovered in an apartment there on September 7, during a wellness check by city police officers. Her death was initially labeled suspicious, then was confirmed as homicide after an autopsy by the Lucas County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Police Department has not released information about a possible suspect or motive. Lt. Rob Black said on Tuesday that due to the ongoing investigation, no details are being made public at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor A local death ruled as a homicide remains under investigation by the Van Wert Police Department. Barbara Ganger, 43, of Van Wert, died of a gunshot wound at Van Wert West Apartments on W. Main St. Her body was discovered in an apartment there on September 7, during a wellness check by [&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-170452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 00:50:53","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\/170452","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=170452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170454,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170452\/revisions\/170454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}