{"id":428464,"date":"2015-12-11T16:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T22:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=428464"},"modified":"2015-12-13T05:20:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T11:20:08","slug":"palestine-police-investigate-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=428464","title":{"rendered":"Palestine Police Investigate Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/police-1-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-428471\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/police-1-1-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"police-1\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-428471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/police-1-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/police-1-1.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>PALESTINE &#8212; The Palestine Police Department is investigating a shooting incident that left a 55-year-old Palestine man injured around 8:40 Thursday night on South May Street.  According to KETK, police say the initial information indicated that the victim heard a knock at his front door shortly before 9:00 p.m. The victim opened the door and saw two males standing on his front porch, one of whom was armed with a shotgun. The victim quickly closed the door and the suspects fired two shots through the door. The victim was hit once in the face and once in the shoulder area. There was also a female at the May Street residence at the time of the shooting. The female was not injured. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The victim was transported to the Palestine Regional Medical Center for treatment and later airlifted to a Tyler hospital. The victim was listed in stable condition as of the morning of December 11.  The victim was able to give police some details of the shooting, including a basic description of the suspects. They were described as one Hispanic male and one black male.  The victim advised police that the Hispanic male was wearing a black sweater with white strips and black pants. It was also stated that the black male was wearing a black hooded jacket with tan colored pants.   <\/p>\n<p>The police say they will be talking with possible witnesses and others living in the area as part of the investigation.  &#8220;The investigation is still in the initial stages but we hope to resolve this matter as soon as possible,&#8221; said Captain James Muniz.  Officials say the victim&#8217;s name will not be released for security reasons.  Anyone with information concerning this incident is being asked to call the Palestine Police Department at 903-729-2254 or Detective David Kassaw at 903-731-8482. Concerned citizens can also call Crime Stoppers at 903-729-TIPS (8477) or send tips to Tip411 by going to the City of Palestine website.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALESTINE &#8212; The Palestine Police Department is investigating a shooting incident that left a 55-year-old Palestine man injured around 8:40 Thursday night on South May Street. According to KETK, police say the initial information indicated that the victim heard a knock at his front door shortly before 9:00 p.m. The victim opened the door and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=428464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palestine Police Investigate Shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":428471,"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-428464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 08:10:38","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\/428464","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=428464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428472,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428464\/revisions\/428472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/428471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}