{"id":1092891,"date":"2022-01-26T07:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1092891"},"modified":"2022-01-27T08:38:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T14:38:41","slug":"smith-county-agrees-to-pay-500000-settlement-to-family-of-man-who-died-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1092891","title":{"rendered":"Smith County agrees to pay $500,000 settlement to family of man who died in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1092892\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/TeddyP-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County agreed to pay a $500,000 settlement to the family of a man who died while in custody at the Smith County Jail. According to our news partner KETK, 32-year-old Teddy Parker was booked on a public intoxication charge on May 14, 2017. About half an hour after he was booked, he was carried out unconscious on a stretcher. He died two days later. The city of Tyler has since paid $300,000 to settle its portion of the lawsuit. Now, Smith County will pay $500,000 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153for the purpose of terminating and preventing involvement in litigation based on the incident of May 14, 2017.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The settlements are not an admission of guilt.<!--more--> None of the jailers or police officers have been found guilty of doing anything wrong. A medical examiner concluded that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the toxic effects of methamphetamine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d killed Parker. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153accident.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Smith County agreed to pay a $500,000 settlement to the family of a man who died while in custody at the Smith County Jail. According to our news partner KETK, 32-year-old Teddy Parker was booked on a public intoxication charge on May 14, 2017. About half an hour after he was booked, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1092891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County agrees to pay $500,000 settlement to family of man who died in jail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1092894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/TeddyP-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County agrees to pay $500,000 settlement to family of man who died in jail","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 09:28:04","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\/TeddyP-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County agrees to pay $500,000 settlement to family of man who died in jail","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092891","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092893,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092891\/revisions\/1092893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}