{"id":1444447,"date":"2025-09-24T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1444447"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:14:22","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-after-fatal-shooting-in-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1444447","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder after fatal shooting in Longview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1444448\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/lavanb-225x189.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/lavanb-225x189.png 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/lavanb.png 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; A 66-year-old man has been booked into the Gregg County Jail for murder after a fatal shooting in Longview on Monday afternoon. According to the Longview Police Department and our news partner KETK, just after 4:00 p.m., officers were dispatched to a home on Crystal Street in response to a welfare check. Once they arrived on scene, authorities located Kathleen Bullock, who had been shot and was pronounced dead by the Gregg County Justice of the Peace.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators later identified Lavan Bullock of Longview as the suspect. He was taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. Following medical treatment, Bullock was booked into the Gregg County Jail and charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>The department said the investigation remains active and no further details will be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A 66-year-old man has been booked into the Gregg County Jail for murder after a fatal shooting in Longview on Monday afternoon. According to the Longview Police Department and our news partner KETK, just after 4:00 p.m., officers were dispatched to a home on Crystal Street in response to a welfare check. Once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1444447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man charged with murder after fatal shooting in Longview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1444694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/lavanb-225x189.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 18:38:26","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\/lavanb-225x189.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444447","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=1444447"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445049,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444447\/revisions\/1445049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}