{"id":18060,"date":"2020-08-14T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=18060"},"modified":"2020-08-16T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T14:08:22","slug":"man-killed-in-parking-lot-of-norcross-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=18060","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in gang-related slaying of 70-year-old in Norcross parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NORCROSS — A suspect has been arrested in what police are calling a gang-related homicide in a hotel parking lot in Gwinnett County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gwinnett County Police Department responded to the In Town Suites at 1950 Willow Trail Parkway Thursday after 70-year-old Richard St. John was found dead in the parking lot with at least one gunshot wound. The police department received a 911 call just after 3:30 p.m.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. John was transported to a local hospital where he died from his injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday afternoon, police arrested Jose Aldo Sanchez-Vazquez on charges of Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Felony, Aggravated Assault, and Felony Murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The motive for this murder appears to be gang related,” said Gwinnett County Police spokesman Collin Flynn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anyone has any information to share in this case, contact detectives at 770-513-5300. To remain anonymous, tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS (8477) or visit www.stopcrimeATL.com<\/a>. Crime Stoppers tipsters can receive a cash reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case. The case number is 20-060148.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NORCROSS — A suspect has been arrested in what police are calling a gang-related homicide in a hotel parking lot in Gwinnett County. The Gwinnett County Police Department responded to the In Town Suites at 1950 Willow Trail Parkway Thursday after 70-year-old Richard St. John was found dead in the parking lot with at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8498,8584,8473,8521,8519,8474],"class_list":["post-18060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-gwinnett-county","tag-gwinnett-county-police","tag-media","tag-norcross","tag-shooting","tag-sun","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}