{"id":714,"date":"2010-07-12T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T21:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2010-07-13T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:54:39","slug":"news-brief-sheriff-decides-not-to-arrest-man-who-shot-burglar-in-onalaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Sheriff decides not to arrest man who shot burglar in Onalaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Steve Mansfield is going to let the prosecutor&#8217;s office decide if April&#8217;s <a title=\"April's Onalaska shooting death case\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=245\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shooting<\/a> of a suspected burglar in Onalaska was or was not justified.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mansfield, who is running for reelection, says he feels the homeowner acted in a manner which makes the use of force reasonable, according to a news release from the Lewis County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation concluded Thomas\u00a0 McKenzie, the 56-year-old Morton man who was fatally shot, was at the home on the 2100 block of state Route 508 on April 19 to commit a burglary and had earlier in the day committed a burglary, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office won&#8217;t be taking the 59-year-old homeowner, Ronald Brady into custody, but will send the case to the Lewis County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office for its review, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies on Friday <a title=\"Joanna McKenzie arrested on Friday\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=701\" target=\"_blank\">arrested McKenzie&#8217;s wife<\/a>, Joanna McKenzie, 32, for burglary for her involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Sheriff Steve Mansfield is going to let the prosecutor&#8217;s office decide if April&#8217;s fatal shooting of a suspected burglar in Onalaska was or was not justified. However, Mansfield, who is running for reelection, says he feels the homeowner acted in a manner which makes the use [&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-714","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\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}