{"id":190513,"date":"2025-03-09T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190513"},"modified":"2025-03-09T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T02:10:17","slug":"shooting-suspect-remains-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/03\/09\/shooting-suspect-remains-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting suspect remains in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Van Wert man arrested in connection with a shooting incident last Wednesday made a court appearance on Friday and will appear in court again this week.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Abdul-R-3-7-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190445\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yusef Abdulrahman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Records from Van Wert Municipal Court indicate Yusef Abdulrahman, 50, is currently charged with improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, a fourth degree felony, aggravated menacing, a first degree misdemeanor, and inducing panic, also a first degree misdemeanor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to court records, Abdulrahman was arraigned on Friday, but it\u2019s not clear if he entered a plea. He\u2019s scheduled to appear in court again for a preliminary hearing Thursday afternoon. He remains at the Van Wert County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to information provided by Lt. Rob Black after last Wednesday night\u2019s incident, the Van Wert Police Department received a report of a male shooting a firearm out of a vehicle in the Second St.\/Monroe St. area. No injuries were reported and no damage was found during the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A witness saw Abdulraham leaving the scene northbound in a light blue Chrysler 300. At 8:30 p.m., 90 minutes after the initial call came into the police department, officers located Abdulraham and his car at his Sycamore St. home. He was arrested and was taken to jail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A Van Wert man arrested in connection with a shooting incident last Wednesday made a court appearance on Friday and will appear in court again this week. Records from Van Wert Municipal Court indicate Yusef Abdulrahman, 50, is currently charged with improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, a fourth [&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-190513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 09:04:11","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\/190513","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=190513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190514,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190513\/revisions\/190514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}