{"id":145422,"date":"2011-12-01T05:28:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T11:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=145422"},"modified":"2011-12-02T02:22:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T08:22:44","slug":"teen-killed-in-tyler-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=145422","title":{"rendered":"TJC Student Charged in Shooting Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=145770\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-145770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/Brandon-Raynard-Willis1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Brandon Raynard Willis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-145770\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2013 A shooting in Tyler has left one person dead. The incident happened shortly after 7:15 Tuesday night at the Varsity Place Apartments, 3400 Varsity. Brandon Raynard Willis, 19, of Dallas, has been charged with manslaughter.  The victim was identified as Daveon Johnson, 18, also of Dallas. Investigators say four young men from the Dallas area, including the suspect and victim,  are leasing an apartment at Varsity Place Apartments. Willis is currently enrolled at Tyler Junior College and Johnson is a former student of TJC.  <\/p>\n<p>Investigators were told that Willis had pointed a 38 revolver at Johnson and was reportedly explaining how he had been shot in the past and pulled the trigger several times thinking the weapon was unloaded. It discharged striking Johnson. Johnson was shot in the upper rights side of his back and was pronounced dead at East Texas Medical Center at 8:08 last night. An autopsy is scheduled at Southeast Forensics.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued Wednesday by TJC, &#8220;We are saddened for the loss of life and the devastating effect this has had on the others involved. Our hearts go out to these young men, their friends and families. We ask that our entire college community keep these families in their thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 A shooting in Tyler has left one person dead. The incident happened shortly after 7:15 Tuesday night at the Varsity Place Apartments, 3400 Varsity. Brandon Raynard Willis, 19, of Dallas, has been charged with manslaughter. The victim was identified as Daveon Johnson, 18, also of Dallas. Investigators say four young men from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=145422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TJC Student Charged in Shooting Death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 22:22:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145422","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145422"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146092,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145422\/revisions\/146092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}