{"id":1281449,"date":"2023-12-09T11:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T17:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1281449"},"modified":"2023-12-11T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T13:50:35","slug":"community-mourns-death-of-15-year-old-livingston-isd-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1281449","title":{"rendered":"Community mourns death of Livingston student"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/c406d92abf344b4cd9e2e018e124a851-175x123.jpg\")
LIVINGSTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Our colleagues at KETK report that Livingston ISD and community members mourn the loss of one of their students who died after being struck by an 18-wheeler when leaving a school bus. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our district lost a member of its family. At times like this, we are reminded how precious life can be and how fragile each life truly is. It is sad when our district loses a member of its family. It is even more tragic when such a young life is taken away from us. We extend our thoughts and sincere condolences to family and friends.<\/p>\n
All of our counselors are available in the morning to listen and help any students needing assistance. We are fortunate to have a team of experienced counselors who can provide much-needed comfort to our students and staff.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Members of the community have also voiced their sympathy for the family.<\/p>\n
Kathy Prescott, a resident, said she cannot stop thinking about how the family must be hurting.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I feel like something has to be done loading and unloading these babies on these highways,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Prescott.<\/p>\n
Roxie Long, another resident, said she also has a son who is 15-years-old and that this hits close to home.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all I see on Facebook is wanting prayers for our community and the boys family,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Long.<\/p>\n
She said the community has faced tragedies before and will come together to support the family.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Polk County is very strong. When disasters happen, we just all kind of pull together,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Long.<\/p>\n
Other officials have released statements offering their condolences including the South Polk County Volunteer Fire Department and Corrigan-Camden ISD.<\/p>\n
Representative Trent Ashby, who represents District 9 of the Texas House, said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153please join me in praying for the family, friends, and entire Livingston community as they grieve this tragic and devastating loss.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LIVINGSTON \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Our colleagues at KETK report that Livingston ISD and community members mourn the loss of one of their students who died after being struck by an 18-wheeler when leaving a school bus. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our district lost a member of its family. At times like this, we are reminded how precious life can be and … Continue reading Community mourns death of Livingston student<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1281453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/12\/c406d92abf344b4cd9e2e018e124a851-175x123.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Community mourns death of 15-year-old Livingston ISD student","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 00:40:50","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\/c406d92abf344b4cd9e2e018e124a851-175x123.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Community mourns death of 15-year-old Livingston ISD student","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281449","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=1281449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281541,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281449\/revisions\/1281541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1281453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}