{"id":311652,"date":"2014-08-22T06:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T11:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=311652"},"modified":"2014-08-23T07:59:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T12:59:53","slug":"former-local-teen-victim-in-double-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=311652","title":{"rendered":"Former Local Teen Victim in Double-Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/ElijahBensonFB.1408655787.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/08\/ElijahBensonFB.1408655787-150x150.png\" alt=\"ElijahBensonFB.1408655787\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-311653\" \/><\/a>BURNET &#8212; A former East Texas teen was killed Tuesday in a double homicide, and the son of a Hill Country constable is charged with capital murder. Garrett Ballard, 21, Burnet,  was reportedly high on LSD when he used a rifle he took from his father&#8217;s patrol unit.  Ballard told authorities Tuesday he and the victims, Elijah Benson, 17,  formerly of Whitehouse, and Travis Fox, 26, bought the hallucinogenic drug to celebrate a birthday at his home. He said when Benson and Fox began acting strangely due to the drug effects, he shot them with his dad&#8217;s weapon. Benson lived in Whitehouse before moving to Burnet. He was a student at Burnet High School. The Texas Rangers are leading the investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BURNET &#8212; A former East Texas teen was killed Tuesday in a double homicide, and the son of a Hill Country constable is charged with capital murder. Garrett Ballard, 21, Burnet, was reportedly high on LSD when he used a rifle he took from his father&#8217;s patrol unit. Ballard told authorities Tuesday he and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=311652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Local Teen Victim in Double-Homicide<\/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-311652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 00:21:06","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\/311652","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=311652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311676,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311652\/revisions\/311676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}