{"id":735,"date":"2026-01-12T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:57:11","slug":"music-legend-dies-during-shootout-with-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Music legend dies during shootout with police"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"anchorslot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\"><!-- responsive 1 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"trendusa1.online_responsive_1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Bay Area-based staple of the death metal music genre was gunned down by police in South San Francisco Monday, after a dispute with a neighbor over tree clippings turned violent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"CLDSvdq68Y4DFTTORAcdktAovg\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Possessed guitar player Brian Montana, 60, was fatally shot by authorities after he brandished a weapon toward his neighbor, authorities with the South San Francisco Police Department confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle Thursday.<br \/>\nMontana \u2018fired multiple times at officers using a handgun, shotgun, and rifle,\u2019 police said of the incident. \u2018Officers used patrol cars as cover and returned fire. The suspect was struck and ultimately pronounced deceased at the scene.\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div id=\"trendusa1.online_responsive_2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1798842\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1663068\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bay Area-based staple of the death metal music genre was gunned down by police in South San Francisco Monday, after a dispute with a neighbor over tree clippings turned &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}