{"id":355877,"date":"2015-05-21T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355877"},"modified":"2015-05-22T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T21:31:00","slug":"liberty-city-crash-probed-as-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355877","title":{"rendered":"Liberty City Crash Probed as Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_police-41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_police-41.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_police-4\" width=\"160\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-355878\" \/><\/a>LIBERTY CITY &#8212; The Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating a crash from Wednesday night as homicide.  According to Lt. Kirk Haddix, deputies found John Allen Franco, 24, had died from a gunshot wound to the head while they were investigating a wreck near the Smallwood neighborhood in Liberty City.  The accident took place a little after 10:00 p.m. on Old Highway 135. Multiple people were said to be in the vehicle involved. It has not been disclosed how many automobiles were involved. Franco was pronounced dead at 12:06 a.m.  Persons with information about this case are asked to contact Investigator Roy Nixon at 903-237-2532 or Crime Stoppers at 903-236-STOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIBERTY CITY &#8212; The Gregg County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating a crash from Wednesday night as homicide. According to Lt. Kirk Haddix, deputies found John Allen Franco, 24, had died from a gunshot wound to the head while they were investigating a wreck near the Smallwood neighborhood in Liberty City. The accident took place a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=355877\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty City Crash Probed as Homicide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":355878,"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-355877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 11:35:55","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\/355877","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=355877"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355983,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355877\/revisions\/355983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}