{"id":359928,"date":"2015-06-02T12:25:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=359928"},"modified":"2015-06-03T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:25:13","slug":"officials-identify-man-fatally-shot-by-palestine-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=359928","title":{"rendered":"Officials Identify Man Fatally Shot by Palestine Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/thumb_police-lights-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/thumb_police-lights-3.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_police-lights-3\" width=\"160\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-359929\" \/><\/a>PALESTINE (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Authorities in Palestine have identified a man fatally shot by police after he allegedly stole beer and pointed a BB gun at officers trying to question him.  Palestine police say 47-year-old James D. Bushey of Anderson County was shot while outside a restaurant.   Police Chief Mike Alexander says officers Sunday night responded to a theft report at a Wal-Mart and a suspect seen leaving the store. Alexander says officers located the man hiding in the bathroom of a nearby restaurant.   Police say Bushey left the restaurant, struggled with officers, and pointed what appeared to be a pistol at them.    Both officers fired. Bushey was declared dead at a Palestine hospital.   Police later determined he had a BB gun and recovered some alleged stolen items.   The officers have been put on administrative leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALESTINE (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Authorities in Palestine have identified a man fatally shot by police after he allegedly stole beer and pointed a BB gun at officers trying to question him. Palestine police say 47-year-old James D. Bushey of Anderson County was shot while outside a restaurant. Police Chief Mike Alexander says officers Sunday night responded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=359928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials Identify Man Fatally Shot by Palestine Police<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":359929,"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-359928","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 18:49:57","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\/359928","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=359928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359930,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359928\/revisions\/359930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/359929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}