{"id":502729,"date":"2016-06-16T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=502729"},"modified":"2016-06-17T11:57:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T16:57:01","slug":"ex-east-texas-officer-gets-life-term-for-slaying-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=502729","title":{"rendered":"Ex-East Texas Officer Gets Life Term for Slaying 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 Texas law enforcement officer who worked for several East Texas agencies must serve life in prison without parole for the 2014 killing of Little River-Academy police Chief Lee Dixon.   David Gene Risner was sentenced Wednesday night in Belton.   Jurors on June 6 convicted Risner of capital murder, but deadlocked on whether he deserved the death penalty or life in prison without possibility of parole. A judge then sentenced the 59-year-old Risner to life behind bars.    Dixon was fatally shot in June 2014 while responding to a report of an armed man.  Dixon was the only police officer in Little River-Academy, a town of about 2,000 located 60 miles northeast of Austin.    Risner formerly was a police officer in Edgewood, Gun Barrel City and Grand Saline, plus worked for the Van Zandt County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELTON (AP) &#8211; A former Texas law enforcement officer who worked for several East Texas agencies must serve life in prison without parole for the 2014 killing of Little River-Academy police Chief Lee Dixon. David Gene Risner was sentenced Wednesday night in Belton. Jurors on June 6 convicted Risner of capital murder, but deadlocked on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=502729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex-East Texas Officer Gets Life Term for Slaying 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-502729","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 20:02:24","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\/502729","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=502729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502730,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502729\/revisions\/502730"}],"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=502729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}