{"id":377174,"date":"2015-07-24T02:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T07:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=377174"},"modified":"2015-07-24T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:49:51","slug":"jury-deliberations-have-started-in-longview-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=377174","title":{"rendered":"Jury Deliberations Continue in Longview Murder Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/Alejandro-Garcia-Winona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/07\/Alejandro-Garcia-Winona-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandro Garcia-Winona\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-375564\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Longview jury is continuing deliberations in the murder trial of a Smith County man. Both the prosecution and the defense rested their cases Thursday in the trial of Alejandro Garcia, 23, of Winona. The jury deliberated around 4 hours before retiring for the night. Garcia is charged with the murder of  Andres Chavez, 19. The Longview man&#8217;s body was found December 23rd, 2013, lying outside a car in the 1100 block of Sabine Street.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The autopsy report indicated he died from blunt trauma to the head and sharp force injuries to the neck. Investigators said Chavez may have been lured to his death by a catfish.  A catfish is a person who creates a false online identity to pursue an online romance. Garcia had  allegedly set up a fake Facebook account.  Authorities say he posed as a woman named Monica Ayalin and had several conversations with the victim. According to Facebook posts, Ayalin and Chavez were in a relationship and he believed he was meeting &#8220;her&#8221; for a date. If convicted of the death, Garcia could get up to life in prison.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Longview jury is continuing deliberations in the murder trial of a Smith County man. Both the prosecution and the defense rested their cases Thursday in the trial of Alejandro Garcia, 23, of Winona. The jury deliberated around 4 hours before retiring for the night. Garcia is charged with the murder of Andres &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=377174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jury Deliberations Continue in Longview Murder Trial<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":375564,"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-377174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 16:11:15","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\/377174","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=377174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377333,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377174\/revisions\/377333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/375564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}