{"id":171611,"date":"2019-05-08T14:53:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=171611"},"modified":"2019-05-09T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:12:39","slug":"death-of-ransom-county-man-ruled-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=171611","title":{"rendered":"Death of Ransom County man ruled homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-171613\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Galusha-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Galusha-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Galusha-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Galusha-311x175.jpeg 311w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Galusha.jpeg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>LISBON, N.D. (AP) \u2014 An investigation into a February shooting death in North Dakota is continuing despite the weekend death of a person of interest in a Missouri police shootout. Thirty-four-year-old William Galusha was found dead at a rural Milnor home Feb. 27, and authorities deemed the death suspicious. Ransom County Sheriff Darren Benneweis (BEHN\u2019-uh-wys) says that an autopsy report he received Monday classified the death as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Photo above:\u00a0 <span class=\"image-caption image-caption-display\">William Galusha pictured with friend Naomi Gregor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inforum.com\/news\/crime-and-courts\/1018380-Ransom-County-death-publicly-declared-a-homicide-by-investigators\">Special to WDAY News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171612\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171612\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171612\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/WedgeBarry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"122\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry Wedge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Benneweis says the primary person of interest in the case was 42-year-old Barry Wedge, Galusha\u2019s roommate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/content\/news\/Breaking-news--Man-killed-in-officer-involved-shootout-in-Douglas-County-509477491.html\">KYTV-TV reports<\/a> that Wedge killed himself early Saturday after a chase and shootout with Missouri officers who tried to stop him for suspected impaired driving.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas County Sheriff Chris Degase said Wedge had recently been interviewed by the Missouri Highway Patrol about the North Dakota homicide investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISBON, N.D. (AP) \u2014 An investigation into a February shooting death in North Dakota is continuing despite the weekend death of a person of interest in a Missouri police shootout. Thirty-four-year-old William Galusha was found dead at a rural Milnor home Feb. 27, and authorities deemed the death suspicious. Ransom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171676,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171611\/revisions\/171676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}