{"id":1280590,"date":"2023-12-06T08:32:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1280590"},"modified":"2023-12-08T04:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T10:13:01","slug":"upshur-county-double-homicide-suspect-extradited-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1280590","title":{"rendered":"$5 million bond set for double homicide suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1280601\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/AlvinMcknightJr-127x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/AlvinMcknightJr-127x175.jpg 127w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/AlvinMcknightJr-254x350.jpg 254w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/AlvinMcknightJr-768x1060.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/AlvinMcknightJr-1113x1536.jpg 1113w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/AlvinMcknightJr.jpg 1115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/>UPSHUR COUNTY &#8212; The man accused of murdering two East Texas sisters has been extradited from California. Alvin McKnight Jr. was captured in San Bernardino, California on November 15. He&#8217;s accused of fleeing to the Golden State after the capital murders of Dermetrica Dashaunda Waters, 37, and Mandy Ray, 35, at a home near Gilmer on November 4. McKnight, Upshur County Sheriff Larry Webb, deputies and DPS Officers landed at East Texas Regional Airport Tuesday afternoon. They flew in a DPS plane. McKnight was in handcuffs during the entire flight. McKnight was arraigned Wednesday in Gilmer. The 41-year-old is being held in the Upshur County Jail with bond set at $5 million.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prior to his capture, DPS had added McKnight to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List. A combined Crime Stoppers reward of $17,500 was offered for information leading to his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>His sister, Laquesha Monique McKnight, 38, of Longview, was arrested for interfering with\/hindering his arrest. Officials believe she helped him escape from the Upshur County area the night of the murders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPSHUR COUNTY &#8212; The man accused of murdering two East Texas sisters has been extradited from California. Alvin McKnight Jr. was captured in San Bernardino, California on November 15. He&#8217;s accused of fleeing to the Golden State after the capital murders of Dermetrica Dashaunda Waters, 37, and Mandy Ray, 35, at a home near Gilmer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1280590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">$5 million bond set for double homicide suspect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1280602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/AlvinMcknightJr-127x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Upshur County double homicide suspect extradited from California","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280590","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 03:34:06","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\/12\/AlvinMcknightJr-127x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Upshur County double homicide suspect extradited from California","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280590","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=1280590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280824,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280590\/revisions\/1280824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}