{"id":29479,"date":"2017-07-20T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-officer-rauschs-statement-about-joseph-mcdade-shooting\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T12:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T19:05:58","slug":"kent-police-officer-rauschs-statement-about-joseph-mcdade-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-officer-rauschs-statement-about-joseph-mcdade-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police officer Rausch&#8217;s statement about Joseph-McDade shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Police released several documents about the June 24 shooting death of Giovonn Joseph-McDade on the East Hill after a short vehicle pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police officer Matthew Rausch, who has been with the department for two-plus years, made the initial stop of Joseph-McDade and began the pursuit when Joseph-McDade took off. Officer William Davis assisted in the call and is the officer who fired the shots that killed the Auburn man and former Kent-Meridian High School student-athlete when Joseph-McDade drove his vehicle toward Davis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/family-demands-answers-about-kent-police-shooting-death-of-joseph-mcdade\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Family\">After pleas from relatives and friends of Joseph-McDade <\/a>to release more information about the case, Police Chief Ken Thomas decided to release documents to the family and the media. Both officers have returned to duty.<\/p>\n<p>Rausch wrote the following statement about his involvement in the case to Thomas:<\/p>\n<p><div data-configid=\"3061683\/51364580\" style=\"width:525px; height:340px;\" class=\"issuuembed\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.js\" async=\"true\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Police released several documents about the June 24 shooting death of Giovonn Joseph-McDade on the East Hill after a short vehicle pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":29480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29479"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}