{"id":1487065,"date":"2026-03-10T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1487065"},"modified":"2026-03-13T02:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:44:30","slug":"authorities-search-for-shooting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1487065","title":{"rendered":"Shooting suspect remains at large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1487067\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/christop222-201x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/christop222-201x200.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/christop222-351x350.jpg 351w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/christop222.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 The Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office is searching for a 31-year-old man accused of shooting a woman on Monday night. Deputies were dispatched on Monday at around 10:19 p.m. to Highway 69 near Joe Mea Road. They found a woman shot in the leg by Christopher Hatfield. The woman was taken to a local hospital and remains in stable condition, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Hatfield allegedly fled before law enforcement arrived. Investigators believe he may have been picked up by someone in a vehicle or may have made his way to a different area. He was last seen wearing all white and is considered to be armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding Hatfield is urged to contact the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY \u2014 The Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office is searching for a 31-year-old man accused of shooting a woman on Monday night. Deputies were dispatched on Monday at around 10:19 p.m. to Highway 69 near Joe Mea Road. They found a woman shot in the leg by Christopher Hatfield. The woman was taken to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1487065\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shooting suspect remains at large<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1487156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/christop222-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 08:14:53","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\/2026\/03\/christop222-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487065","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=1487065"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487799,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487065\/revisions\/1487799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}