{"id":220270,"date":"2020-05-22T17:03:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T16:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=220270"},"modified":"2020-05-22T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T16:05:06","slug":"son-kills-father-during-zoom-chat-in-new-york-state-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=220270","title":{"rendered":"Son &#8216;kills father&#8217; during Zoom chat in New York state | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/20\/05\/70x70\/skynews-amityville-long-island-new-york_4996047.jpg?20200522101139\"><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\">A man has been stabbed to death by his son during a Zoom video chat with about 20 others, police say.<br \/>\nDwight Powers, 72, was on a video conferencing call at his home in Amityville, Long Island, New York, when his son, Thomas Scully-Powers, 32, attacked him, Suffolk County Police said.<br \/>\nPolice said they received several 911 calls from the other Zoom participants shortly after midday on Thursday.<br \/>\nA police spokesman said some of the participants may have witnessed part of the attack, with some giving a description of the son to officers.<br \/>\n&#8220;They just noticed him fall off the screen and then they heard heavy breathing,&#8221; Detective Lieutenant Kevin Beyrer told Newsday.<br \/>\n&#8220;It was horrible that they had to witness this.&#8221;<br \/>\nScully-Powers fled the scene, injuring himself while jumping out of a window, but was caught and arrested in the area about an hour later.<br \/>\nThe suspect was taken to hospital and has been charged with second-degree murder, police said in a statement.<br \/>\nHe is still receiving treatment for his injuries so a court date has not yet been set, the force added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been stabbed to death by his son during a Zoom video chat with about 20 others, police say. Dwight Powers, 72, was on a video conferencing call at his home in Amityville, Long Island, New York, when his son, Thomas Scully-Powers, 32, attacked him, Suffolk County Police said. Police said they received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7162,1555],"class_list":["post-220270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-murder","tag-new-york"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}