{"id":1406205,"date":"2025-04-20T22:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T03:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1406205"},"modified":"2025-04-23T04:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:35:02","slug":"kilgore-man-arrested-after-firing-flare-gun-inside-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1406205","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore man arrested after firing flare gun inside Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"

KILGORE \u2013 \"\"Our news partners at KETK report officials responded to a Kilgore Walmart after receiving a call on Saturday of a man allegedly firing a flare gun inside, the Kilgore Police Department said. The police department was advised that \u201cthe gun had gone off inside the store and the man was walking towards the exit.\u201d Officers arrived at the scene and quickly arrested the man. Upon further investigation, police said that the man \u201caccidentally\u201d set the flare gun off inside, before abandoning it on a shelf and walking away.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know this incident was alarming at the time for those who heard the flare gun discharge,\u201d police said. \u201cThankfully he didn\u2019t have a handgun and no one was injured.\u201d <\/p>\n

The police department learned that the man had two warrants, leading to his arrest. Police have not released his identity and he was taken to jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KILGORE \u2013 Our news partners at KETK report officials responded to a Kilgore Walmart after receiving a call on Saturday of a man allegedly firing a flare gun inside, the Kilgore Police Department said. The police department was advised that \u201cthe gun had gone off inside the store and the man was walking towards the … Continue reading Kilgore man arrested after firing flare gun inside Walmart<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1406207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/Walmart-jpg_6162408_ver1.0-e1745205125542-225x137.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 09:37:30","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\/2016\/01\/Walmart-jpg_6162408_ver1.0-e1745205125542-225x137.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406205","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=1406205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406208,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406205\/revisions\/1406208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1406207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}