{"id":1092743,"date":"2022-01-25T15:44:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1092743"},"modified":"2022-01-26T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:44:01","slug":"warrant-man-charged-in-wreck-that-killed-teen-said-hed-had-six-cocktails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1092743","title":{"rendered":"Warrant: Man charged in wreck that killed teen said he&#8217;d had six cocktails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/2022-01-25_154311-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1092744\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A Tyler man accused in a crash that killed a Tyler Legacy High School senior told police he had six cocktails at a local bar before the collision, according to a warrant obtained by our news partner KETK. After first facing a lesser charge, Jason Charles, 24, is now charged with intoxication manslaughter. Victim Lilly Thornburgh was taken off life support three days after the January 14 wreck. Charles was initially uncooperative with paramedics at the scene and when one asked him to tell the truth, he replied, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to the documents. The warrant says an officer on the scene said Charles was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unsteady on his feet, had an altered mental state, made rambling statements that did not make sense, had slurred speech, and was very emotional.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It also says the officer smelled alcohol on Charles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s breath. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A Tyler man accused in a crash that killed a Tyler Legacy High School senior told police he had six cocktails at a local bar before the collision, according to a warrant obtained by our news partner KETK. After first facing a lesser charge, Jason Charles, 24, is now charged with intoxication manslaughter. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1092743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warrant: Man charged in wreck that killed teen said he&#8217;d had six cocktails<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1092751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/2022-01-25_154311-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Warrant: Man charged in wreck that killed teen said he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had six cocktails","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092743","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 16:14:33","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\/2022-01-25_154311-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Warrant: Man charged in wreck that killed teen said he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had six cocktails","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092743","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=1092743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092749,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092743\/revisions\/1092749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}