{"id":1182785,"date":"2022-11-28T13:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1182785"},"modified":"2022-11-29T14:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T20:47:54","slug":"further-details-pending-on-officer-involved-shooting-in-cherokee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1182785","title":{"rendered":"Further details pending on officer-involved shooting in Cherokee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/shot-175x97.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"97\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1182482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/shot-175x97.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/shot.png 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>CRAFT \u00e2\u20ac\u201c It may be awhile before we know more about a hostage situation in Cherokee County that led to an officer-involved shooting.  In a prepared statement, DPS Sgt. Adam Albritton says, &#8220;For the safety of the medical staff, no information about the suspect or his condition will be released at this time.&#8221; Authorities said the suspect was shot south of Jacksonville Saturday in a confrontation with law enforcement after he allegedly held his wife and daughter hostage. According to our news partner KETK, Albritton says around 11:52 a.m., the Cherokee County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office got a 911 call from a man who claimed to be holding his wife and daughter hostage. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>When sheriff&#8217;s personnel and DPS troopers arrived at the scene, in the area of the Craft community off Highway 69, the suspect allegedly confronted them with a gun in a threatening manner. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unfortunately, officers had to defend themselves, and the incident ended with the suspect shot,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Albritton. The alleged hostage-taker was transported to a local hospital, while officials say his wife and daughter are uninjured. The Texas Rangers are investigating.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRAFT \u00e2\u20ac\u201c It may be awhile before we know more about a hostage situation in Cherokee County that led to an officer-involved shooting. In a prepared statement, DPS Sgt. Adam Albritton says, &#8220;For the safety of the medical staff, no information about the suspect or his condition will be released at this time.&#8221; Authorities said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1182785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Further details pending on officer-involved shooting in Cherokee County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1182789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/shot-175x97.png","fifu_image_alt":"Further details pending on officer-involved shooting in Cherokee County","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 03:40:46","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\/11\/shot-175x97.png","fifu_image_alt":"Further details pending on officer-involved shooting in Cherokee County","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182785","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=1182785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182787,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182785\/revisions\/1182787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}