{"id":521020,"date":"2016-08-05T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=521020"},"modified":"2016-08-06T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T21:42:28","slug":"van-zandt-county-inmate-found-dead-in-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=521020","title":{"rendered":"Van Zandt County Inmate Found Dead in Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jail-cell-prison-jpg_9875172_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jail-cell-prison-jpg_9875172_ver1.0-200x113.jpg\" alt=\"Jail-cell--prison-jpg_9875172_ver1.0\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-521021\" \/><\/a>CANTON &#8212; The Van Zandt County Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced Friday morning an inmate has died.  According to KETK, officials report Jay McEvers, 47, of Canton, was found unconscious in his cell and pronounced dead. He was in a single-occupancy cell when his death occurred.  His body has been sent for autopsy, and the Texas Rangers are investigating.  Further information wasn&#8217;t immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTON &#8212; The Van Zandt County Sheriff&#8217;s Office announced Friday morning an inmate has died. According to KETK, officials report Jay McEvers, 47, of Canton, was found unconscious in his cell and pronounced dead. He was in a single-occupancy cell when his death occurred. His body has been sent for autopsy, and the Texas Rangers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=521020\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Van Zandt County Inmate Found Dead in Cell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":521021,"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-521020","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 09:17:50","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\/521020","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=521020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521029,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521020\/revisions\/521029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/521021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}