{"id":388398,"date":"2015-08-25T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=388398"},"modified":"2015-08-26T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T19:39:02","slug":"officer-involved-shooting-under-investigation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=388398","title":{"rendered":"Three Longview Officers on Paid Leave Following Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/MobberlyShooting_1440529600868_4462239_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/MobberlyShooting_1440529600868_4462239_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"MobberlyShooting_1440529600868_4462239_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-388496\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; Three police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after an officer-involved shooting Tuesday morning in Longview.  According to KETK, officers were on the scene of a suspicious activity call in the 500 block of Mobberly Avenue around 3:42 a.m. when they encountered several men in a store parking lot.  When officers approached them, 17-year-old Joshua Kennon Thomas reportedly produced what appeared to be a handgun from his waistband. One officer fired his duty weapon several times, striking the suspect. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Thomas was taken to a local hospital with what are termed non-life-threatening injuries. Police say Thomas was shot twice in the chest and once in the arm.   According to police, Thomas&#8217;s gun turned out to be a Umarex SA9 CO2 powered pistol &#8212; a fake gun that resembles a semi-automatic weapon.   The Texas Rangers were contacted and are investigating the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Three police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after an officer-involved shooting Tuesday morning in Longview. According to KETK, officers were on the scene of a suspicious activity call in the 500 block of Mobberly Avenue around 3:42 a.m. when they encountered several men in a store parking lot. When officers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=388398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three Longview Officers on Paid Leave Following Shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":388496,"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-388398","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 09:11:15","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\/388398","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=388398"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388578,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388398\/revisions\/388578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/388496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}