HENDERSON \u2014 A Rusk County man has admitted to officials that he lied about his involvement in last Friday\u2019s shooting. The victim originally told Rusk County investigators he was shot by another man while trying to help a woman in distress. He has now recanted his story, admitting he lied to keep the unknown suspect from being arrested. According to KETK, the victim now tells officials the suspect took his gun away from him, shot him \u2014 and then, after shooting him, seemed remorseful and gave the gun back. Investigators found the weapon hidden under the back seat of the victim\u2019s vehicle. Rusk County investigators will file a report with the District Attorney\u2019s Office for false report to peace officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HENDERSON \u2014 A Rusk County man has admitted to officials that he lied about his involvement in last Friday\u2019s shooting. The victim originally told Rusk County investigators he was shot by another man while trying to help a woman in distress. He has now recanted his story, admitting he lied to keep the unknown suspect … Continue reading Man Admits to Lying in Rusk County Shooting<\/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-170111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 14:29:08","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\/170111","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=170111"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170497,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170111\/revisions\/170497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}