{"id":41867,"date":"2019-08-14T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/son-shoots-86-year-old-mother-then-himself-in-des-moines\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T23:16:43","slug":"son-shoots-86-year-old-mother-then-himself-in-des-moines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/son-shoots-86-year-old-mother-then-himself-in-des-moines\/","title":{"rendered":"Son fatally shoots 86-year-old mother, then himself in Des Moines | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 63-year-old son fatally shot his 86-year-old mother and then himself in the yard of a home in Des Moines near <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/1XNGG6bGJ4WN8kv69\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">Fourth Avenue South and South 213th Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paula W. Hudson died from a handgun wound to the head, according to the King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office, which ruled her death a homicide. Michael K. Hudson, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Both died on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Des Moines Police responded at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to the home, according to a Des Moines Police media release. A family associate was checking on the home and called 911 to report a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found Paula Hudson and her son dead in the yard. A suicide note was located. A handgun was found in the hand of the son. Investigators are treating the case as a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is an isolated incident specific to this family and this residence,&rdquo; according to the news release. &ldquo;Our hearts go out to the victims, their family and friends.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Des Moines Police Cmdr. Mike Graddon said in an email it was unknown if they each lived at the home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office identifies pair <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":41868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41867","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\/41867"}],"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=41867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41867"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}