MARSHALL \u2014 A grieving Texas father wants the way we call 911 to be the same everywhere in the state. Officials say Hank Hunt\u2019s daughter Kari was murdered by her ex-husband in a Marshall hotel room December 1 in front of the couple\u2019s three little kids. Their nine-year-old tried to call 911, but didn\u2019t realize she had to dial nine first to get an outside line. Hunt says, \u201cMy granddaughter did what she was supposed to do, and she couldn\u2019t get help \u2014 and a nine-year-old should be able to get help when she needs it.\u201d More than 360,000 people have signed his petition on change.org called \u201cKari\u2019s Law\u201d \u2014 a law that would require businesses like hotels to make sure their phone systems have easy access to dialing 911. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MARSHALL \u2014 A grieving Texas father wants the way we call 911 to be the same everywhere in the state. Officials say Hank Hunt\u2019s daughter Kari was murdered by her ex-husband in a Marshall hotel room December 1 in front of the couple\u2019s three little kids. Their nine-year-old tried to call 911, but didn\u2019t realize … Continue reading Grieving Dad Seeks Easier Access to 911<\/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-287724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 21:21:58","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\/287724","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=287724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287813,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287724\/revisions\/287813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}