{"id":203363,"date":"2026-03-03T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203363"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:32:17","slug":"dixon-fire-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/03\/03\/dixon-fire-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixon fire update&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dixon-house-fire-2-24-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203081\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach has released an update on last week\u2019s fatal house fire in Dixon (see story <a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/tuesday-blaze-destroys-dixon-home-one-person-dead\/\">here<\/a>). According to Riggenbach, the deceased individual in the house fire was identified as Jeffrey Gillespie, 67, of Dixon. Riggenbach said during the initial call about the fire, it was reported that it was believed someone fired multiple rounds into the caller\u2019s home. Deputies located multiple bullet holes in the neighboring home. Sheriff Riggenbach stated that based on information and evidence collected at the scene, it is believed the shots came from the home that burned down and were fired by Gillespie. <em>Bob Barnes photo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert County Sheriff Thomas M. Riggenbach has released an update on last week\u2019s fatal house fire in Dixon (see story here). According to Riggenbach, the deceased individual in the house fire was identified as Jeffrey Gillespie, 67, of Dixon. Riggenbach said during the initial call about the fire, it was reported that it was [&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-203363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 08:49:00","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\/203363","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=203363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203365,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203363\/revisions\/203365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}