{"id":325540,"date":"2015-02-11T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=325540"},"modified":"2015-02-20T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:14:51","slug":"authorities-investigate-van-county-fire-as-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=325540","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Man Killed in Home Invasion Was Suspect in Arson Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/Christopher-Ray-Foster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/02\/Christopher-Ray-Foster-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Ray Foster\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-325582\" \/><\/a>CANTON \u2014 A man who was fatally shot by a woman believed to be defending her home was also the suspect in a recent arson case, officials said Wednesday afternoon.  According to KETK, the Van Zandt County Fire Marshal says Christopher Ray Foster, 37, of Edgewood, was the suspect in a Monday night structure fire on State Highway 19 and County Road 1106.  The county fire marshal, along with deputies and a justice of the peace, were able to link Foster to the fire by physical evidence found on him at the time of his death.   <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, dispatchers received a 911 call from a homeowner on Highway 19 saying she had just shot a man who was trying break into her house, according to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Responding deputies found Foster dead at the scene. He had a lengthy criminal history and had recently been released from the Van Zandt County Jail for failure to register as a sex offender. Investigators say they determined Foster was forcing his way through a side door when the homeowner fatally shot him.  The Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting, and the case has been turned over to the Van Zandt County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON \u2014 A man who was fatally shot by a woman believed to be defending her home was also the suspect in a recent arson case, officials said Wednesday afternoon. According to KETK, the Van Zandt County Fire Marshal says Christopher Ray Foster, 37, of Edgewood, was the suspect in a Monday night structure fire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=325540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials: Man Killed in Home Invasion Was Suspect in Arson Case<\/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-325540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 08:09:19","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\/325540","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=325540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325659,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325540\/revisions\/325659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}