{"id":264130,"date":"2013-06-20T02:11:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T07:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264130"},"modified":"2013-06-20T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T21:17:22","slug":"hundreds-attend-funeral-service-for-texas-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264130","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Attend Funeral Service for Texas officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/William-Sprague.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/06\/William-Sprague-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"William Sprague\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-263537\" \/><\/a>TEXARKANA (AP) \u2014 Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral service for an East Texas police officer who died after being hit by a vehicle during a disturbance at a park. The service for Texarkana police officer William Jason Sprague was held Wednesday in Texarkana and included a procession of emergency vehicles to First Baptist Church. Police officers and firefighters formed a long line extending from the church&#8217;s entrance. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sprague was hurt early Friday while responding to a call about fights at the park. He had exited his patrol car when he was struck by a vehicle fleeing the area. The 30-year-old died Saturday. Police arrested Justin Sanders, 21, and authorities charged him with aggravated assault on a public servant. The charge could be upgraded. He remains in custody on a $1.5 million bond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA (AP) \u2014 Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral service for an East Texas police officer who died after being hit by a vehicle during a disturbance at a park. The service for Texarkana police officer William Jason Sprague was held Wednesday in Texarkana and included a procession of emergency vehicles to First Baptist Church. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=264130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hundreds Attend Funeral Service for Texas officer<\/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-264130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 09:30:45","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\/264130","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=264130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264259,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264130\/revisions\/264259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}