{"id":310754,"date":"2014-08-14T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=310754"},"modified":"2014-08-15T17:35:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T22:35:14","slug":"law-enforcement-officers-cleared-in-fatal-shooting-of-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=310754","title":{"rendered":"Law Enforcement Officers Cleared in Fatal Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/vinsonarrest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/vinsonarrest-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"vinsonarrest\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-310755\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2013 A Gregg County grand jury has cleared five officers in the death of murder suspect Randy Vinson (pictured). The Texas Rangers investigated the shooting. KETK reports the grand jury cleared;<br \/>\n\u2022\tKilgore Police Chief Todd Hunter<br \/>\n\u2022\tKilgore Police Sgt. Jarod Sears<br \/>\n\u2022\tKilgore Police Cpl. Kevin Stewart<br \/>\n\u2022\tKilgore Police Officer Amos Owings<br \/>\n\u2022\tGregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Deputy Chase Doss <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>On February 18th, Vinson is said to have murdered his sister-in-law Elizabeth Vinson, 32. Her body was found in her vehicle in the driveway of her home off Highway 31. After the shooting, Vinson ran into some near-by woods. That set off a massive manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes later Vinson fired a shot and officers returned the fire. Vinson, who was hit, fell into a creek. As officers approached, Vinson is said to have risen out of the water and tried to grab his gun, a SKS Rifle with a 21 cartridge magazine. It was then officers shot and killed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 A Gregg County grand jury has cleared five officers in the death of murder suspect Randy Vinson (pictured). The Texas Rangers investigated the shooting. KETK reports the grand jury cleared; \u2022 Kilgore Police Chief Todd Hunter \u2022 Kilgore Police Sgt. Jarod Sears \u2022 Kilgore Police Cpl. Kevin Stewart \u2022 Kilgore Police Officer Amos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=310754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Law Enforcement Officers Cleared in Fatal Shooting<\/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-310754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 22:10:49","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\/310754","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=310754"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310906,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310754\/revisions\/310906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}