{"id":126800,"date":"2011-09-20T13:37:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T18:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=126800"},"modified":"2011-09-21T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:21:58","slug":"suspect-shot-after-pointing-gun-at-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=126800","title":{"rendered":"Authorities: Suspect Shot Dead after Pointing Gun at Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=126803\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126803\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/09\/richard_owen_dean-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"richard_owen_dean\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-126803\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHALLSVILLE &#8212; A 44-year-old Longview man was shot and killed by a sheriff&#8217;s deputy early Tuesday morning after authorities say he pointed a gun at three law enforcement officers in a standoff that lasted nearly six hours.  That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal.   Harrison County Sheriff&#8217;s spokesman Jay Webb said two Hallsville police officers and one Harrison County sheriff&#8217;s deputy were dispatched at about 2 a.m. Tuesday to Lansing Switch Road in connection with a family disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>Webb said when officers arrived, Richard Owen Dean had a gun and barricaded himself in a motor home.  Webb said after Dean denied the deputies&#8217; attempts to speak with him, he continually pointed the gun at his head and made threatening gestures with the weapon toward the law enforcement officers.  Deputies then fired a shot, killing Dean.   Webb said the Harrison County deputy was placed on administrative leave while Texas Rangers investigate. He was unsure whether the two Hallsville officers were placed on leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLSVILLE &#8212; A 44-year-old Longview man was shot and killed by a sheriff&#8217;s deputy early Tuesday morning after authorities say he pointed a gun at three law enforcement officers in a standoff that lasted nearly six hours. That&#8217;s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. Harrison County Sheriff&#8217;s spokesman Jay Webb said two Hallsville police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=126800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Authorities: Suspect Shot Dead after Pointing Gun at Officers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 14:02:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126800","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126800"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127161,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126800\/revisions\/127161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}