{"id":255189,"date":"2013-05-01T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=255189"},"modified":"2013-05-02T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:17:57","slug":"life-prison-term-for-hammer-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=255189","title":{"rendered":"Life Prison Term for Hammer Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=237677\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-237677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/02\/510a036269366.image_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"510a036269366.image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-237677\" \/><\/a>CARTHAGE \u2014 A White Oak man will spend the rest of his life in prison for attacking a Tatum couple with a hammer last year. That\u2019s according to KETK. Michael Christopher Ferris, 21, who has been in jail since April 2012, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday in a Panola County courtroom. Tatum police say Ferris knocked on his victims\u2019 door and asked to use the phone. Once inside, police say, he attacked an elderly woman with a hammer and then went to a nearby barn and began beating her husband. Both victims have since recovered from their injuries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARTHAGE \u2014 A White Oak man will spend the rest of his life in prison for attacking a Tatum couple with a hammer last year. That\u2019s according to KETK. Michael Christopher Ferris, 21, who has been in jail since April 2012, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday in a Panola County courtroom. Tatum police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=255189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life Prison Term for Hammer Attack<\/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-255189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 23:59:58","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\/255189","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=255189"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255412,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255189\/revisions\/255412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}