TYLER — The man accused of murdering an East Texas pastor pleads not guilty. Back in January, Pastor Mark McWilliams was the first to encounter 21-year-old Mytrez Deunte Woolen. He was running for deputies and using the church as a hideout spot. Woolen is accused of killing the pastor with his own gun after a struggle inside the church and then leaving the scene. Woolen has been charged with capital murder. If convicted, Woolen could face the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER — The man accused of murdering an East Texas pastor pleads not guilty. Back in January, Pastor Mark McWilliams was the first to encounter 21-year-old Mytrez Deunte Woolen. He was running for deputies and using the church as a hideout spot. Woolen is accused of killing the pastor with his own gun after a … Continue reading Man accused of killing east Texas pastor pleads not guilty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1001440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/04\/Mytrez-Deunte-Woolen-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Man accused of killing east Texas pastor pleads not guilty","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 02:30:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/04\/Mytrez-Deunte-Woolen-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Man accused of killing east Texas pastor pleads not guilty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002715,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001436\/revisions\/1002715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}