{"id":1239743,"date":"2023-06-29T16:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1239743"},"modified":"2023-07-01T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T21:06:44","slug":"foundation-pays-mortgage-of-fallen-smith-county-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1239743","title":{"rendered":"Foundation pays mortgage of fallen Smith County deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/lorenzo_bustos-134x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1239744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/lorenzo_bustos-134x175.jpg 134w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/lorenzo_bustos-269x350.jpg 269w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/lorenzo_bustos.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The family of  fallen Smith County deputy Lorenzo Bustos had their mortgage paid in full by an organization that supports the families of first responders and veterans. It was announced Thursday by The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, this according to our news partner KETK. The foundation began after 9\/11, with the purpose of providing mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children. Lorenzo was struck and killed by a drunk driver while conducting a traffic stop on his last day of training with the Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Department. That was July 29, 2022. Lorenzo Bustos is survived by his wife Gloria and their four young children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The family of fallen Smith County deputy Lorenzo Bustos had their mortgage paid in full by an organization that supports the families of first responders and veterans. It was announced Thursday by The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, this according to our news partner KETK. The foundation began after 9\/11, with the purpose of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1239743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Foundation pays mortgage of fallen Smith County deputy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1239747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/lorenzo_bustos-134x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Foundation pays mortgage of fallen Smith County deputy","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 11:13:09","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\/2023\/06\/lorenzo_bustos-134x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Foundation pays mortgage of fallen Smith County deputy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239743","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239762,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239743\/revisions\/1239762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1239747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}