{"id":1331360,"date":"2024-06-17T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1331360"},"modified":"2024-06-18T06:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:01:15","slug":"wills-point-man-gets-25-years-for-mothers-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1331360","title":{"rendered":"Wills Point man gets 25 years for mother’s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

WILLS POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \"\"Our news partners at KETK report a Wills Point man who was accused of murdering his elderly mother pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced to 25 years of incarceration on Thursday. According to the Van Zandt County District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office, Gerald Wayne Powell was sentenced to 25 years on Thursday with 1,144 days credit that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already served. In April of 2021, Van Zandt County law enforcement was notified by Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister that he had killed a family pet and that he was planning to kill their mother. Law enforcement reported that they surrounded Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home and began negotiations with him using a bullhorn and phone.<\/p>\n

According to the former Van Zandt County Sheriff Steve Hendrix, Powell claimed that he was heavily armed and would harm law enforcement. Hendrix said that during the negotiations they learned that lived with his mother, was a veteran and claimed to be suffering from PTSD.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement reported that Powell eventually surrendered himself and they discovered his 91-year-old mother shot to death in the home afterward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WILLS POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our news partners at KETK report a Wills Point man who was accused of murdering his elderly mother pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced to 25 years of incarceration on Thursday. According to the Van Zandt County District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office, Gerald Wayne Powell was sentenced to 25 years on Thursday with … Continue reading Wills Point man gets 25 years for mother’s murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1331363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/Gerald-Powell-mug-225x150.webp","fifu_image_alt":"WILLS POINT, Texas (KETK) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Wills Point man that was accused of murdering his elderly mother pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced to 25 years of incarceration on Thursday. Athens man gets 60 years in prison for 2021 murder, hostage situation According to the Van Zandt County District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office, Gerald Wayne Powell was sentenced to 25 years on Thursday with 1,144 days credit that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already served. Gerald Powell, courtesy of Van Zandt County Jail In April of 2021, Van Zandt County law enforcement was notified by Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister that he had killed a family pet and that he was planning to kill their mother. Law enforcement reported that they surrounded Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home and began negotiations with him using a bullhorn and phone. 2 men arrested in Tyler for Mississippi murder According to the former Van Zandt County Sheriff Steve Hendrix, Powell claimed that he was heavily armed and would harm law enforcement. Hendrix said that during the negotiations they learned that lived with his mother, was a veteran and claimed to be suffering from PTSD. Law enforcement reported that Powell eventually surrendered himself and they discovered his 91-year-old mother shot to death in the home afterward.","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 05:05:04","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\/2024\/06\/Gerald-Powell-mug-225x150.webp","fifu_image_alt":"WILLS POINT, Texas (KETK) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Wills Point man that was accused of murdering his elderly mother pleaded guilty in May and was sentenced to 25 years of incarceration on Thursday. 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Law enforcement reported that Powell eventually surrendered himself and they discovered his 91-year-old mother shot to death in the home afterward.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331360","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=1331360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331364,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331360\/revisions\/1331364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}