{"id":323105,"date":"2015-01-12T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=323105"},"modified":"2015-01-13T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:22:20","slug":"longview-homicide-numbers-hold-in-2014-but-few-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=323105","title":{"rendered":"Longview Homicide Numbers Hold in 2014, but Few Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/01\/thumb_police-longview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/01\/thumb_police-longview-150x120.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_police-longview\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-323106\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; The number of people killed in homicides in Longview held nearly steady in 2014, yet as a new year begins there are still no charges filed in the majority of those cases.  According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, last year saw five fatal shootings within the city limits, homicides that left a total of eight people dead.   In one of those incidents \u2014 a double homicide on June 15 in which Chanda \u201cCandy\u201d Martin and Kimberly Rayson were killed \u2014 murder charges have been filed. Isaiah Roberts, 30, of Tyler, faces a capital murder charge in the double shooting that led to the death of his ex-wife, Martin, and her friend.  But in four other cases, including an April shooting in which three people were killed, police have yet to bring murder charges.  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Longview Police spokeswoman Kristie Brian said that in any given year, the number of charges brought in homicide cases depends upon individual circumstances. Sometimes police can have a very good idea of who\u2019s involved in a crime, yet not have enough evidence for formal charges.  And usually, she said, that means drugs.  \u201cOf the homicides we\u2019ve seen, as a general rule they do have narcotics overtones,\u201d she said. \u201cThat lifestyle makes (the investigation) a lot harder.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Such crimes cross borders of wealth, age and race, Brian said. And they present a problem for police, who generally can\u2019t bring charges unless at least one witness is willing to come forward. \u201cBasically, a community has to step up and say \u2018not in my neighborhood,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cThey have to decide to take it back. And we\u2019re willing to help them take it back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; The number of people killed in homicides in Longview held nearly steady in 2014, yet as a new year begins there are still no charges filed in the majority of those cases. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, last year saw five fatal shootings within the city limits, homicides that left a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=323105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Homicide Numbers Hold in 2014, but Few Charges<\/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-323105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 23:35:25","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\/323105","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=323105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323107,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323105\/revisions\/323107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}