{"id":1335494,"date":"2024-07-01T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1335494"},"modified":"2024-07-03T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T12:00:46","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-sunday-night-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1335494","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after Sunday night shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/2024-07-01_161212-197x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1335496\" \/>Our partners at KETK report the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office (SCSO) is currently investigating a murder that took place on Sunday evening. At approximately 6:30 p.m. on Sunday deputies of the sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office responded to a shooting in the 8900 block of CR 4136. Smith County Communications had reportedly received information that a man had been shot multiple times and was not breathing. Officials said that when the deputies arrived, they found the man in a bedroom of the residence and he confirmed that he had been shot. Deputies began lifesaving measures until EMS arrived, however the man, identified as 21-year-old Kelly Torrez, was pronounced dead shortly after. The sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office identified Melvin Guevara, 21 of Tyler, as the suspect. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Authorities said that after receiving a warrant for Guevara, they were able to locate a vehicle said to belong to him at Highway 31 East and Loop 323. It was reported that a felony stop was conducted at a nearby car wash on the vehicle and Guevara was taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Guevara was booked into the Smith County Jail and charged with murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our partners at KETK report the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office (SCSO) is currently investigating a murder that took place on Sunday evening. At approximately 6:30 p.m. on Sunday deputies of the sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office responded to a shooting in the 8900 block of CR 4136. Smith County Communications had reportedly received information that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1335494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man charged with murder after Sunday night shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1335498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/2024-07-01_161212-197x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Man charged with murder after Sunday night shooting","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 05:00:12","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\/07\/2024-07-01_161212-197x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Man charged with murder after Sunday night shooting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335494","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=1335494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335510,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335494\/revisions\/1335510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}