{"id":701,"date":"2010-07-12T12:49:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2010-07-13T05:35:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:35:56","slug":"news-brief-morton-woman-arrested-for-burglary-in-connection-with-april-incident-in-onalaska-when-her-husband-was-fatally-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Morton woman arrested for burglary in connection with April incident in Onalaska when her husband was fatally shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lewis County sheriff&#8217;s deputies on Friday arrested the wife of Thomas\u00a0 McKenzie, the 56-year-old Morton man who was fatally shot by an Onalaska home owner who was staying overnight at his house-under-construction in case burglars from earlier in the day returned.<\/p>\n<p>Joanna McKenzie was arrested and booked into jail on Friday for burglary in connection with <a title=\"April's Onalaska shooting death case\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=245\" target=\"_blank\">the incidents<\/a> that took place on April 19 at the 2100 block of state Route 508 in Onalaska, according to Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Cmdr. Steve Aust.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office this morning turned over the file on the case to the Lewis County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for its evaluation, Aust said.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old homeowner, whose name has not been released, told sheriff&#8217;s detectives at the time he heard a noise and opened the outer garage door to see flashlights shining in his eyes. He fired his weapon.<\/p>\n<p>More on the case to come later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Lewis County sheriff&#8217;s deputies on Friday arrested the wife of Thomas\u00a0 McKenzie, the 56-year-old Morton man who was fatally shot by an Onalaska home owner who was staying overnight at his house-under-construction in case burglars from earlier in the day returned. Joanna McKenzie was arrested and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}