{"id":472637,"date":"2016-04-05T02:40:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T07:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=472637"},"modified":"2016-04-05T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:40:09","slug":"constables-shooting-may-be-because-of-infidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=472637","title":{"rendered":"Affidavit: Alleged Affair Spurred Texas Constable&#8217;s Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/Meraland-Jackson.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-472638\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/Meraland-Jackson.jpg\" alt=\"Meraland Jackson\" width=\"133\" height=\"123\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-472638\" \/><\/a>TYLER (AP) &#8211; Authorities say a shooting where an East Texas constable and his 5-year-old granddaughter were injured was prompted by his wife&#8217;s belief that he was having an affair. That according to an arrest affidavit, 66-year-old Meraland Taylor Jackson told officers she shot her husband, Smith County Precinct 1 Constable Henry Jackson, Saturday because she believed he had been having an affair with a co-worker. Meraland Jackson is charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon family violence. She&#8217;s jailed on $500,000 bond. Police say she shot her 63-year-old husband in the chest and the girl in the ankle. Henry Jackson was in stable condition at a local hospital. The couple&#8217;s granddaughter was treated and released. Meraland Jackson told investigators her granddaughter was hit accidentally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER (AP) &#8211; Authorities say a shooting where an East Texas constable and his 5-year-old granddaughter were injured was prompted by his wife&#8217;s belief that he was having an affair. That according to an arrest affidavit, 66-year-old Meraland Taylor Jackson told officers she shot her husband, Smith County Precinct 1 Constable Henry Jackson, Saturday because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=472637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Affidavit: Alleged Affair Spurred Texas Constable&#8217;s Shooting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":472638,"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-472637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 13:50:36","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\/472637","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=472637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472885,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472637\/revisions\/472885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/472638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}