{"id":1504876,"date":"2026-05-08T03:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1504876"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T03:07:37","slug":"guilty-plea-in-2025-lake-tyler-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1504876","title":{"rendered":"Guilty plea in 2025 Lake Tyler shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-08_030837-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1504877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-08_030837-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-08_030837-274x275.jpg 274w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-08_030837.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> TYLER \u2014 After accepting a guilty plea deal, a man has been sentenced to eight years in state prison for a 2025 shooting at Lake Tyler on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On May 18, 2025, the Tyler Police Department responded to a report of gunshots at a parking lot near Lake Tyler. Officials said no one was injured in the shooting. The suspected shooter, Dezavion Williams of Henderson, had a rifle and was taken into custody by officers. Williams was arrested and booked into the Smith County Jail for aggravated assault mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>On April 23, Williams was offered a guilty plea deal, according to Smith County judicial records. Williams accepted the guilty plea at a pre-trial hearing on Thursday and was sentenced to eight years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 After accepting a guilty plea deal, a man has been sentenced to eight years in state prison for a 2025 shooting at Lake Tyler on Thursday. On May 18, 2025, the Tyler Police Department responded to a report of gunshots at a parking lot near Lake Tyler. Officials said no one was injured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1504876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guilty plea in 2025 Lake Tyler shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1505153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/2026-05-08_030837-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 10:21:14","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\/05\/2026-05-08_030837-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504876","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=1504876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505237,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504876\/revisions\/1505237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}