{"id":190768,"date":"2025-03-16T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190768"},"modified":"2025-03-16T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:03:17","slug":"van-wert-man-faces-new-shooting-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/03\/16\/van-wert-man-faces-new-shooting-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert man faces new shooting charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Van Wert man in jail in connection with a recent shooting incident is facing an additional charge.<\/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>Yusef Abdulrahman, 50, was originally charged with improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, a fourth degree felony, and aggravated menacing and inducing panic, both first degree misdemeanors. A new charge of having weapons under disability, a third degree felony, was added last week by a Van Wert County grand jury. He was served with the additional charge via a warrant on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdulraham was arrested March 6 at his home on Sycamore St., about 90 minutes after he allegedly shot a firearm out of a vehicle in the Second St. Monroe St. area. A witness saw him leaving the scene and gave police a description of his car. Officers were able to locate evidence at the scene and at Abdulraham\u2019s home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No injuries were reported as a result of the shots fired and no damage was found during the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff A Van Wert man in jail in connection with a recent shooting incident is facing an additional charge. Yusef Abdulrahman, 50, was originally charged with improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, a fourth degree felony, and aggravated menacing and inducing panic, both first degree misdemeanors. A new charge of [&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-190768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 10:01:09","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\/190768","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=190768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190769,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190768\/revisions\/190769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}