{"id":189941,"date":"2012-05-20T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=189941"},"modified":"2012-05-21T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T15:45:47","slug":"off-duty-officer-saves-mans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=189941","title":{"rendered":"Off Duty Officer Saves Man&#8217;s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=189942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-189942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/05\/Tyler-Police-Patch.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tyler Police Patch\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-189942\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 An off duty Tyler policeman is being credited with saving a man\u2019s life. It happened around11:15 Saturday night near the intersection of Loop 323 and Tanglewood Drive.<\/p>\n<p>As officer Jason Compton was heading home he saw a group of people standing near the intersection. He found that a 42 year old man had stabbed himself six times in the chest and was lying bleeding in the street. From his first aid kit he used \u201cquick clot,\u2019 a chemically inert material in a mesh bag that speeds coagulation of blood. He held pressure on the man\u2019s chest until EMS arrived. The man was taken to a Tyler hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 An off duty Tyler policeman is being credited with saving a man\u2019s life. It happened around11:15 Saturday night near the intersection of Loop 323 and Tanglewood Drive. As officer Jason Compton was heading home he saw a group of people standing near the intersection. He found that a 42 year old man had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=189941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Off Duty Officer Saves Man&#8217;s Life<\/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-189941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 09:39:42","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\/189941","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=189941"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190124,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189941\/revisions\/190124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}