{"id":264059,"date":"2013-06-19T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264059"},"modified":"2013-06-20T16:29:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T21:29:45","slug":"suspect-named-in-tyler-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264059","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Named in Tyler Murder Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Lawrence-Charles-Murphy-Jr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/Lawrence-Charles-Murphy-Jr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Charles Murphy, Jr\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-264060\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; A warrant has been issued for a suspect in the weekend murder of Scott Lester, 26 of Tyler. His body was found in room 218 of American Inn Motel, 1800 West Erwin, just before 7:00 Sunday morning. It is believed Lester was involved in the sale of narcotics in his motel room before he was killed. One of the suspects is identified as as Lawrence Charles Murphy, Jr., 20. (pictured) A warrant charging Murphy with murder has been signed by Judge Jack Skeen. Bond on the warrant is set at $1,000,000. Murphy is approximately 5&#8217;08&#8221; tall and weighs around 170. He has access to a 1989 Chevrolet Caprice bearing Texas license plate CX3G877. Since a firearm was used, Murphy Jr. is considered to be armed and extremely dangerous.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video obtained from the motel indicates that four black males walked onto the motel property and went to the victim&#8217;s room. Two suspects entered Lester&#8217;s room while the two other suspects remained outside as lookouts. Investigators determined that Lester and two other subjects were in the room at the time of the shooting. After gunfire erupted and Lester was shot, all four suspects ran from the scene towards West Erwin Street. Officers are trying to identify the other suspects in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A warrant has been issued for a suspect in the weekend murder of Scott Lester, 26 of Tyler. His body was found in room 218 of American Inn Motel, 1800 West Erwin, just before 7:00 Sunday morning. It is believed Lester was involved in the sale of narcotics in his motel room before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suspect Named in Tyler Murder Case<\/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-264059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 09:31:13","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\/264059","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=264059"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264281,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264059\/revisions\/264281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}