{"id":298007,"date":"2014-04-16T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=298007"},"modified":"2014-04-17T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T17:05:11","slug":"gladewater-man-indicted-for-2013-murder-of-hallsville-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=298007","title":{"rendered":"Gladewater Man Indicted for 2013 Death of Hallsville Teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/04\/cobyhudginsmug.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/04\/cobyhudginsmug-150x150.png\" alt=\"cobyhudginsmug\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-298008\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 A Gladewater man has been indicted for the October 2013 death of a Hallsville girl.  KETK reports Kilgore police arrested Coby Ray Hudgins, 22, who they believe shot and killed Kayla Elizabeth Williams, 17.  The incident took place at a home in the 3000 block of Mustang Drive in Kilgore at 9:12 p.m. Saturday, October 4. According to police, Hudgins was last seen leaving the residence where police found Williams&#8217;s body. Gregg County Justice of the Peace Arthur Fort, who pronounced Williams dead at 4:00 a.m. Sunday, said Williams died instantly from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Hudgins\u2019 family members declined to comment on his arrest but insisted the shooting was accidental, and witnesses told police he had been at the residence earlier with a group of friends. Shortly after Hudgins left the house he was involved in a vehicle accident on Farm to Market Road 2087.  DPS officials arrived on scene, identified Hudgins, and placed him under arrest.  Judge Fort said Hudgins was intoxicated with a blood alcohol content level of .15 when he was detained.  Hudgins has been charged with murder as well as driving while intoxicated and is currently in Gregg County Jail on $101,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 A Gladewater man has been indicted for the October 2013 death of a Hallsville girl. KETK reports Kilgore police arrested Coby Ray Hudgins, 22, who they believe shot and killed Kayla Elizabeth Williams, 17. The incident took place at a home in the 3000 block of Mustang Drive in Kilgore at 9:12 p.m. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=298007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gladewater Man Indicted for 2013 Death of Hallsville Teen<\/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-298007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 19:06:46","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\/298007","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=298007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298010,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298007\/revisions\/298010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}