{"id":498957,"date":"2016-06-07T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=498957"},"modified":"2016-06-08T15:10:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:10:27","slug":"ex-east-texas-officer-convicted-in-2014-slaying-of-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=498957","title":{"rendered":"Ex-East Texas Officer Convicted in 2014 Slaying of Police Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/David-Gene-Risner.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/David-Gene-Risner-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"David Gene Risner\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-498973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/David-Gene-Risner-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/David-Gene-Risner.jpeg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>BELTON (AP) &#8211; A former East Texas law enforcement officer has been convicted of capital murder in the 2014 fatal shooting of Little River-Academy police Chief Lee Dixon.   David Gene Risner faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole for the slaying as Dixon responded to a report of a man with a gun.   A Bell County jury on Monday convicted Risner in the June 2014 death of the only police officer in Little River-Academy, a town of about 2,000 located 60 miles northeast of Austin. The penalty phase was scheduled Tuesday in Belton.   Law enforcement records show Risner formerly was a police officer in Edgewood, Gun Barrel City, and Grand Saline. He also worked for the Van Zandt County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELTON (AP) &#8211; A former East Texas law enforcement officer has been convicted of capital murder in the 2014 fatal shooting of Little River-Academy police Chief Lee Dixon. David Gene Risner faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole for the slaying as Dixon responded to a report of a man with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=498957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex-East Texas Officer Convicted in 2014 Slaying of Police Chief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":498973,"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-498957","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 22:08:32","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\/498957","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=498957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498974,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498957\/revisions\/498974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/498973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}