{"id":249451,"date":"2013-04-02T02:26:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T07:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=249451"},"modified":"2013-04-02T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T18:26:38","slug":"interim-da-named-for-kaufman-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=249451","title":{"rendered":"Interim DA Named for Kaufman County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/Mike-McLelland1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/Mike-McLelland1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mike McLelland\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-249107\" \/><\/a>KAUFMAN (AP) \u2014 An interim prosecutor has been chosen to fill in after the slaying of an East Texas district attorney. Brandi Fernandez will lead the Kaufman County District Attorney&#8217;s Office for the next 21 days. She had been the first assistant DA under District Attorney Mike McLelland (pictured). McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot to death in their home Saturday. Reports indicated they were shot multiple times. <\/p>\n<p>Just two months ago, assistant prosecutor Mark Hasse was gunned down outside the courthouse. No arrests have been made in Hasse&#8217;s death. State law requires that the DA&#8217;s first assistant will conduct the affairs of the office until Governor Rick Perry appoints a permanent successor. Kaufman County Judge Bruce Wood says the county will submit candidates to the governor&#8217;s office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAUFMAN (AP) \u2014 An interim prosecutor has been chosen to fill in after the slaying of an East Texas district attorney. Brandi Fernandez will lead the Kaufman County District Attorney&#8217;s Office for the next 21 days. She had been the first assistant DA under District Attorney Mike McLelland (pictured). McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=249451\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interim DA Named for Kaufman County<\/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-249451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 16:42:07","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\/249451","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=249451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249537,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249451\/revisions\/249537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}