{"id":91,"date":"2025-08-12T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guruofthebeauty.com\/hot-talk\/10497-bystander-who-shot-man-attacking-officer-finds-out-his-fate-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:39:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:42:42","slug":"bystander-who-shot-man-attacking-officer-finds-out-his-fate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Bystander Who Shot Man Attacking Officer Finds Out His Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/guruofthebeauty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fb18.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<p>Ashad Russell, the bystander who shot and killed a man attacking a Florida sheriff\u2019s deputy, will not face criminal charges, officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"in_article\"><\/div>\n<p>The decision, made by the State Attorney\u2019s Office, clears the 35-year-old after a high-profile incident that unfolded on Interstate 75.<\/p>\n<p>Russell intervened when he saw Edward Strother violently assaulting Deputy First Class Dean Bardes of the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Russell drew his legally-owned firearm and shot Strother, ultimately saving the deputy\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<div class=\"in_article\"><\/div>\n<p>The case drew national attention at the time, with many hailing Russell\u2019s actions as heroic.<\/p>\n<p>Note: This story, originally reported in February 2017, is being republished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida bystander Ashad Russell won&#8217;t face charges for fatally shooting a man attacking a deputy on I-75; 2017 case republished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popbriefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}