{"id":283650,"date":"2013-11-22T14:41:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=283650"},"modified":"2013-11-24T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T22:04:01","slug":"charge-upgraded-to-murder-in-texas-officers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=283650","title":{"rendered":"Charge Upgraded to Murder in Texas Officer&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/11\/Justin-Sanders.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/11\/Justin-Sanders-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Sanders\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-283651\" \/><\/a>TEXARKANA (AP) \u2014 A man originally charged with assault in the June traffic-related death of a Northeast Texas police officer now faces a murder count. The Texarkana Gazette reports a Bowie County grand jury Thursday indicted Justin Sanders, 21, on the upgraded charge. The case involves the death of Texarkana police Officer William Sprague. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the 30-year-old officer was outside of his patrol car and responding to a disturbance at a park when he was struck June 14 by a fleeing vehicle. Sprague died the following day. Police later arrested Sanders, who in August was indicted on a charge of aggravated assault on a police officer. A judge in Texarkana earlier this month granted a defense request and moved next year&#8217;s scheduled trial to Rockwall, 20 miles east of Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA (AP) \u2014 A man originally charged with assault in the June traffic-related death of a Northeast Texas police officer now faces a murder count. The Texarkana Gazette reports a Bowie County grand jury Thursday indicted Justin Sanders, 21, on the upgraded charge. The case involves the death of Texarkana police Officer William Sprague.<\/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-283650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 09:46:05","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\/283650","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=283650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283653,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283650\/revisions\/283653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}