{"id":129511,"date":"2025-08-08T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129511\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:41:10","slug":"wounded-man-survives-mira-mesa-shooting-by-biting-the-tip-off-gunmans-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129511\/","title":{"rendered":"Wounded man survives Mira Mesa shooting by biting the tip off gunman\u2019s finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old man who was shot on a Mira Mesa hiking trail Wednesday night responded by biting off the finger tip of the alleged gunman in self-defense, San Diego police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers received a report of a shooting and fight occurring between two men on a trail near Maya Linda and Black Mountain roads around 9:50 p.m., police Officer Jose Perales said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the 47-year-old gunman fired a handgun twice at the 23-year-old man, causing a \u201cgrazing gunshot\u201d wound to his lower torso, Perales said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim fought back and bit the top part of the suspect\u2019s middle finger off during a struggle after the shooting, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, Perales said. A firearm was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what circumstances led up to the shooting or what the relationship, if any, was between the two men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man who was shot on a Mira Mesa hiking trail Wednesday night responded by biting off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,1370,728,78984,50,3549,3550,7264,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-129511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-mira-mesa","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-county","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-top-stories-sdut","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114994143939698227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}