{"id":1085855,"date":"2022-01-03T12:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1085855"},"modified":"2022-01-04T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:27:00","slug":"change-of-trial-venue-sought-in-deputys-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1085855","title":{"rendered":"Change of trial venue sought in deputy&#8217;s fatal shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/newson-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1085861\" \/>CARTHAGE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Shreveport man charged with capital murder for allegedly killing a Panola County deputy on New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eve 2019 has requested that his trial be moved elsewhere.  According to our news partner KETK, 49-year-old Gregory Newson is accused of shooting 28-year-old Christopher Dickerson after he was pulled over. Dickerson was able to return fire before Newson drove away. Newson was found one hour later across the Louisiana border in Shreveport with gunshot wounds, a punctured lung, and broken ribs after he crashed. The case has received wide media attention. Newson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawyers argue in their motion that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There exists\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 so great a prejudice against [Newson] that a fair and impartial trial is rendered either impossible or highly unlikely.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Newson is still being held in the Gregg County Jail on a $6 million bond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARTHAGE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Shreveport man charged with capital murder for allegedly killing a Panola County deputy on New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eve 2019 has requested that his trial be moved elsewhere. According to our news partner KETK, 49-year-old Gregory Newson is accused of shooting 28-year-old Christopher Dickerson after he was pulled over. Dickerson was able to return &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1085855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Change of trial venue sought in deputy&#8217;s fatal shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1085864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/newson-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Change of trial venue sought in deputy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fatal shooting","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 19:54:50","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\/2022\/01\/newson-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Change of trial venue sought in deputy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fatal shooting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085855","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=1085855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085862,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085855\/revisions\/1085862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}