{"id":358667,"date":"2015-05-29T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=358667"},"modified":"2015-05-30T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T21:38:44","slug":"longview-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-of-transgender-tylerite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=358667","title":{"rendered":"Longview Man Pleads Not Guilty to Murder of Transgender Tylerite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/CarltonChampion_1432916573974_870522_ver1.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/CarltonChampion_1432916573974_870522_ver1.0-150x150.png\" alt=\"CarltonChampion_1432916573974_870522_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-358668\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; A Longview man has pleaded not guilty in the murder of a Tylerite. 21-year-old Carlton Champion Jr.&#8217;s pre-trial hearing is set for June 26 at 8:30 a.m. in Tyler, with jury selection slated for July 7. Judge Christi Kennedy has set Champion&#8217;s bond at $1,000,000.  According to KETK, Don Martin with the Tyler Police Department says on January 29, police served a warrant on for the murder of Tyrone Lee Underwood, a 24-year-old transgender woman. Police say Champion and Underwood were, at some point, romantically involved. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Around 2:50 a.m. January 26, officers were dispatched to a traffic accident at 400 West 24th Street. A citizen called and said a vehicle struck a telephone pole. The caller then revealed her children told her they heard what they believed to be several gunshots. When officers arrived a few minutes later, they located the vehicle and discovered the driver, identified as Underwood, had been shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A Longview man has pleaded not guilty in the murder of a Tylerite. 21-year-old Carlton Champion Jr.&#8217;s pre-trial hearing is set for June 26 at 8:30 a.m. in Tyler, with jury selection slated for July 7. Judge Christi Kennedy has set Champion&#8217;s bond at $1,000,000. According to KETK, Don Martin with the Tyler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=358667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Man Pleads Not Guilty to Murder of Transgender Tylerite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":358668,"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-358667","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 18:44:47","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\/358667","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=358667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358669,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358667\/revisions\/358669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/358668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}