{"id":1503872,"date":"2026-05-05T03:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1503872"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:41:05","slug":"man-gets-99-year-sentence-for-2022-east-texas-crossbow-murder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1503872","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 99-year sentence for 2022 East Texas crossbow murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas (KETK)\u2013 An East Texas man was sentenced to 99 years in prison on Thursday after committing murder with a crossbow in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenza White was arrested in December 2022 after deputies from the San Augustine County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a call regarding an unresponsive and bloodied man lying in the front yard of a house on FM 711.<\/p>\n<p>Once on the scene, deputies found the victim dead from injuries he sustained after being shot by a crossbow in the back. White was later arrested in Lufkin after he was seen driving in the victim\u2019s truck, which had been reported stolen.<\/p>\n<p>After being placed under arrest, White admitted to officials that he had shot the victim with a crossbow and then stole his truck. White was later charged with murder, aggravated robbery and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, White was sentenced to 99 years in prison after being found guilty by a jury of murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas (KETK)\u2013 An East Texas man was sentenced to 99 years in prison on Thursday after committing murder with a crossbow in 2022. Lorenza White was arrested in December 2022 after deputies from the San Augustine County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a call regarding an unresponsive and bloodied man lying in the front yard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1503872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man gets 99-year sentence for 2022 East Texas crossbow murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news-archive"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 21:21:20","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\/1503872","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=1503872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504249,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503872\/revisions\/1504249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}