{"id":602168,"date":"2023-09-06T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T04:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=602168"},"modified":"2023-09-06T11:05:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T05:35:05","slug":"california-highway-stretch-named-after-slain-indian-origin-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/california-highway-stretch-named-after-slain-indian-origin-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"California highway stretch named after slain Indian-origin police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To honour a fallen national hero, a stretch of a highway in the US state of California has been named after 33-year-old Indian-origin police officer Ronil Singh who was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The stretch of Highway 33 in Newman was dedicated on Saturday to Singh from the Newman Police Department, the Modesto Bee newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Signage proclaiming the \u201cCorporal Ronil Singh Memorial Highway\u201d stands at Highway 33 and Stuhr Road.<\/p>\n<p>Singh, a native of Fiji joined the force in July 2011. A suspected drunk driver fatally shot him on December 26, 2018. A three-day manhunt led to his killer, Paulo Virgen Mendoza, being apprehended at a relative\u2019s house in Kern County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To honour a fallen national hero, a stretch of a highway in the US state of California has been named after 33-year-old Indian-origin police officer Ronil Singh who was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant in 2018. The stretch of Highway 33 in Newman was dedicated on Saturday to Singh from the Newman Police Department, the Modesto Bee newspaper reported. Signage proclaiming the \u201cCorporal Ronil Singh Memorial Highway\u201d stands at Highway 33 and Stuhr Road. Singh, a native of Fiji joined the force in July 2011. A suspected drunk driver fatally shot him on December 26, 2018. A three-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}