{"id":76288,"date":"2011-03-04T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=76288"},"modified":"2011-03-07T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:24:33","slug":"mistrial-declared-in-lockridge-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=76288","title":{"rendered":"Pit Bull Attack, Murder Among Family Tragedies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/03\/04\/mistrial-declared-in-lockridge-case\/mistrial-465x\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/03\/mistrial.465x-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mistrial.465x\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-76291\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW \u2014 On November 10, three weeks before the first of two defendants was found guilty in his son\u2019s death, Kelvin Muckleroy\u2019s grandson, Kaden Muckleroy, died in a Henderson hospital after a pit bull attack.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Muckleroy was the victim\u2019s older sister. Three months ago, she laid to rest her 2-year-old son, Kaden, who was mauled outside his grandfather\u2019s home by a pit bull. The dog belonged to Muckleroy Jr. and was rescued after the 2009 fire.\u201cPeople just didn\u2019t know. That\u2019s why we had that dog in our yard,\u201d she said. Despite her losses, including Wednesday when she was inconsolable after hearing Lockridge\u2019s testimony, Helen Muckleroy said the words that gave her family resolve.\u201cAs long as it is not an innocent verdict, there is still a chance,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is still a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A mistrial was declared in Toronto Lockridge\u2019s murder trial in Gregg County. On Friday, Gregg County District Judge Alfonso Charles declared a mistrial in co-defendant Toronto Eldermek Lockridge\u2019s murder case. After more than two days of testimony and six hours of deliberations, the jury deadlocked 11-1 on whether Lockridge was involved in the September 2009 shooting and arson of Kelvin Muckleroy Jr. A new trial in two months at the earliest is the silver lining for both sides. Lockridge and co-defendant Brandon Quadnell Horne face up to 99 years or life in prison if convicted of fatally shooting Muckleroy Jr. in the head and burning down his house..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 On November 10, three weeks before the first of two defendants was found guilty in his son\u2019s death, Kelvin Muckleroy\u2019s grandson, Kaden Muckleroy, died in a Henderson hospital after a pit bull attack. Helen Muckleroy was the victim\u2019s older sister. Three months ago, she laid to rest her 2-year-old son, Kaden, who was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=76288\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pit Bull Attack, Murder Among Family Tragedies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"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-76288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 16:22:00","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\/76288","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=76288"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76703,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76288\/revisions\/76703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}