{"id":1438842,"date":"2025-09-02T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1438842"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:22:07","slug":"father-daughter-shot-to-death-in-liberty-city-park-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1438842","title":{"rendered":"Father, daughter shot to death in Liberty City park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/LIBERTYCITY-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1438843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/LIBERTYCITY-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/LIBERTYCITY-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/LIBERTYCITY.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>LIBERTY CITY \u2013  A shooting Monday afternoon at Hugh Camp Memorial Park in Liberty City has claimed two lives. According to our news partner KETK, killed were 49-year-old Shawn Blake and his 16-year old daughter, Hailey. The Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Tuesday morning the suspect in the shooting is Christopher Hicks Jr. Hicks was taken to a hospital after suffering self-inflicted life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Because Hicks was Hailey Blake&#8217;s boyfriend, Deputy Chief Craig Harrington said,  \u201cThis incident was believed to be a targeted attack and not a random act of violence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office asks if anybody witnessed the shooting, to please contact them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIBERTY CITY \u2013 A shooting Monday afternoon at Hugh Camp Memorial Park in Liberty City has claimed two lives. According to our news partner KETK, killed were 49-year-old Shawn Blake and his 16-year old daughter, Hailey. The Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Tuesday morning the suspect in the shooting is Christopher Hicks Jr. Hicks was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1438842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Father, daughter shot to death in Liberty City park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1439288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/LIBERTYCITY-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438842","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 20:08:37","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\/2025\/09\/LIBERTYCITY-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438842","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=1438842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439328,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438842\/revisions\/1439328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}