{"id":1429152,"date":"2025-07-24T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1429152"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:58:59","slug":"teenager-dies-in-high-speed-chase-in-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1429152","title":{"rendered":"Teenager dies in high-speed chase in Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/SmithCountySheriff-202x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1355791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/SmithCountySheriff-202x200.jpg 202w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/SmithCountySheriff-353x350.jpg 353w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/SmithCountySheriff.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; A 17-year-old died on Sunday when they were ejected from their vehicle during a high-speed chase on Highway 31, according to a report from our news partner KETK.<\/p>\n<p>The Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that deputies started pursuing a vehicle seen driving at 124 miles per hour on Highway 31 West at around 1:36 a.m. on Sunday. The deputies eventually caught up with the vehicle on Pleasant Hollow Road, where it had crashed.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old driver, Joel Munoz, was ejected from the vehicle along with a passenger. Officials said that Munoz was pronounced dead at the scene while the passenger was taken to a local hospital to be treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; A 17-year-old died on Sunday when they were ejected from their vehicle during a high-speed chase on Highway 31, according to a report from our news partner KETK. The Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that deputies started pursuing a vehicle seen driving at 124 miles per hour on Highway 31 West at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1429152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teenager dies in high-speed chase in Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1429512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/SmithCountySheriff-202x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 10:34:41","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\/09\/SmithCountySheriff-202x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429152","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429497,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429152\/revisions\/1429497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}