{"id":1339625,"date":"2024-07-18T08:45:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1339625"},"modified":"2024-07-19T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:20:49","slug":"armed-person-barricaded-on-a-bus-in-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1339625","title":{"rendered":"Armed person barricaded on a bus in Longview is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1339958\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Longviewpdstandoff2-225x179.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Longviewpdstandoff2-225x179.png 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Longviewpdstandoff2-439x350.png 439w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Longviewpdstandoff2.png 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; Following an hours-long standoff at a Longview gas station, a man who barricaded himself in a bus was found dead of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153self-inflicted injury.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to our news partner KETK, around 3:30 Thursday morning, officers responded to the CEFCO gas station on South Eastman Road for a subject refusing to leave. Officers contacted the male occupant of the bus and learned that he had a handgun. A family member of the occupant in Florida told police that they have experienced similar behavior in the past and that it could have been a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mental episode.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Police said that they continuously attempted communication throughout the morning, both by police and family members, but found no progress was being made. Officials said that around 8 a.m. Thursday morning, Longview SWAT deployed non-lethal gas in an attempt to have the suspect exit the bus, however there was no response. Officers entered the bus and found the occupant dead from an apparent self-inflicted injury. his identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The store has since reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Following an hours-long standoff at a Longview gas station, a man who barricaded himself in a bus was found dead of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153self-inflicted injury.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d According to our news partner KETK, around 3:30 Thursday morning, officers responded to the CEFCO gas station on South Eastman Road for a subject refusing to leave. Officers contacted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1339625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Armed person barricaded on a bus in Longview is dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1339643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/07\/Longviewpdstandoff2-225x179.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 16:00:20","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\/Longviewpdstandoff2-225x179.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339625","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=1339625"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339962,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339625\/revisions\/1339962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}