{"id":334575,"date":"2015-03-19T18:08:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=334575"},"modified":"2015-03-20T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T22:15:10","slug":"hudgins-gets-99-years-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=334575","title":{"rendered":"Hudgins Gets 99 Years for Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/coby_hudgins.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/coby_hudgins-150x150.png\" alt=\"coby_hudgins\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-333032\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Gregg County jury has handed Coby Ray Hudgins, 23, of Kilgore, a lengthy prison sentence for murder. After being found guilty Wednesday of the death of Kayla Elizabeth Williams, 17, of Hallsville, Hudgins was sentenced Thursday afternoon to 99 years in prison. On Sunday, October 6, 2013, Kilgore police arrested Hudgins for Williams\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 murder. The incident took place at a home in the 3000 block of Mustang Drive in Kilgore. Hudgins was reportedly last seen leaving the residence where police found Williams\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 body. Gregg County Judge Arthur Fort, who pronounced Williams dead the following morning, said Williams died instantly from an apparent gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Gregg County jury has handed Coby Ray Hudgins, 23, of Kilgore, a lengthy prison sentence for murder. After being found guilty Wednesday of the death of Kayla Elizabeth Williams, 17, of Hallsville, Hudgins was sentenced Thursday afternoon to 99 years in prison. On Sunday, October 6, 2013, Kilgore police arrested Hudgins for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=334575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hudgins Gets 99 Years for Murder<\/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-334575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 14:58:13","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\/334575","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=334575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334577,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334575\/revisions\/334577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}