{"id":318932,"date":"2026-08-11T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318932\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:32:12","slug":"bennington-man-held-in-new-york-on-attempted-murder-charges-after-july-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318932\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennington man held in New York on attempted murder charges after July shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BENNINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A Bennington man charged with attempted murder after a July shooting and crash is now jailed in New York awaiting extradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bennington Police say Griford Saupin, 49, was one of four passengers in a car on July 25. They say a fight broke out and Saupin shot the driver while they were headed north on Park Street, causing the car to crash into three parked vehicles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver, a 38-year-old man, was airlifted to Albany Medical Center in critical condition. Saupin and two other passengers were also treated at the hospital in New York. Police say a fourth passenger walked away from the crash and is being sought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Saupin is now in custody in New York. He faces charges including attempted murder, possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a violent crime, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say the male victim is listed in stable but critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENNINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A Bennington man charged with attempted murder after a July shooting and crash is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1271,90335,120264,9,11,10,1096,1631],"class_list":["post-318932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-attempted-murder","tag-bennington","tag-griford-saupin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-shooting","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}