{"id":6335,"date":"2026-10-24T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/man-charged-in-fatal-independence-hospital-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:35:45","slug":"man-charged-in-fatal-independence-hospital-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/man-charged-in-fatal-independence-hospital-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Charged in Fatal Independence Hospital Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Kansas City man accused of killing girlfriend inside Centerpoint Medical Center as investigators examine surveillance footage, hospital security and circumstances surrounding her death. INDEPENDENCE, MO \u2013 October 24, 2026 (STL.News) A Kansas City man faces three felony charges after authorities say he fatally shot his girlfriend inside a patient room at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence, Missouri, raising troubling questions about hospital security, firearm access and how a deadly shooting could occur inside a medical facility. James F. Lawson, 39, has been charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/man-charged-in-fatal-independence-hospital-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City man accused of killing girlfriend inside Centerpoint Medical Center as investigators examine surveillance footage, hospital security and circumstances surrounding her death. INDEPENDENCE, MO \u2013 October 24, 2026 (STL.News) A Kansas City man faces three felony charges after authorities&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}