{"id":303648,"date":"2014-06-09T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=303648"},"modified":"2014-06-10T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:25:14","slug":"mall-shooter-gets-additional-prison-time-to-run-concurrently-with-life-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=303648","title":{"rendered":"Mall Shooter Gets Additional Prison Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/rickynealjrmugtpd1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/rickynealjrmugtpd1-150x150.png\" alt=\"rickynealjrmugtpd1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-303649\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 A man who was sentenced to life in prison last month in a fatal Tyler mall shooting accepted a plea deal on an additional charge Monday morning. KETK reports Ricky Neal Jr. pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to five years in prison to run concurrently with his life sentence. The aggravated assault charge stemmed from Neal&#8217;s shooting at Jonathan Lamone Dews, 29, of Tyler, during the murder of Christopher Mass in the Broadway Square Mall parking lot. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Neal and his girlfriend went to the mall to buy shoes at Champs on February 9, 2013. As they entered the mall, Neal noticed a group of men, one of whom he had a prior issue with about &#8220;Tweeting&#8221; his girlfriend on Twitter. A confrontation ensued between Neal and another man from the group inside the mall. The confrontation continued to the parking lot.  According to authorities, Neal then pulled out a gun and shot Mass multiple times, killing him. Mass was a former Chapel Hill High School football and basketball player. He attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, where he also played football.   The convict was found guilty of murder on May 7 and sentenced to life in prison on May 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 A man who was sentenced to life in prison last month in a fatal Tyler mall shooting accepted a plea deal on an additional charge Monday morning. KETK reports Ricky Neal Jr. pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to five years in prison to run concurrently with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=303648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mall Shooter Gets Additional Prison Time<\/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-303648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 06:56:02","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\/303648","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=303648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303668,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303648\/revisions\/303668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}