{"id":1255661,"date":"2023-08-31T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1255661"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:29:34","slug":"texas-rangers-investigating-officer-involved-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1255661","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers investigating officer involved shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1255684\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/DPSSEAL-175x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/DPSSEAL-175x175.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/DPSSEAL.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>HARRISON COUNTY &#8212; The Texas Rangers are conducting an officer involved shooting investigation. According to officials, a DPS trooper was conducting a traffic stop on US Highway 259, in Gregg County, around 10:30 Monday evening. The driver fled, prompting a pursuit, which eventually ended on FM Road 450 in Harrison County. The suspect fled on foot into a wooded area, followed by an exchange of gunfire. The suspect, identified as John L. Stanford, 39, of Avinger, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISON COUNTY &#8212; The Texas Rangers are conducting an officer involved shooting investigation. According to officials, a DPS trooper was conducting a traffic stop on US Highway 259, in Gregg County, around 10:30 Monday evening. The driver fled, prompting a pursuit, which eventually ended on FM Road 450 in Harrison County. The suspect fled on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1255661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Rangers investigating officer involved shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1255686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/DPSSEAL-175x175.png","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Rangers investigating officer involved shooting","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 13:46:39","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\/08\/DPSSEAL-175x175.png","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Rangers investigating officer involved shooting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255661","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=1255661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255685,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255661\/revisions\/1255685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}