{"id":81678,"date":"2011-03-28T15:47:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=81678"},"modified":"2011-03-29T15:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T20:57:43","slug":"deputy-dies-after-cow-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=81678","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Dies From Injuries after Cow Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/03\/28\/deputy-dies-after-cow-attack\/robert-britton\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-81687\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/03\/Robert-Britton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Robert Britton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-81687\" \/><\/a>TYLER (AP) &#8211; An East Texas deputy has died of head injuries suffered when he was attacked by an injured cow while he directed traffic around the half-ton animal. Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith says Deputy Robert Britton of Tyler died Monday at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, where he&#8217;d been since the incident early Thursday near Bullard, 95 miles southeast of Dallas and 15 miles south of Tyler. Smith had said the 54-year-old deputy had responded to a report of a stray cow struck by a vehicle and was directing traffic on Farm Road 344 when the cow charged him. He says Britton was knocked into the air and landed head-first on the pavement before the animal continued the attack until other deputies rescued Britton. Smith says the cow was euthanized. Britton had served as a deputy for the Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Department since 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER (AP) &#8211; An East Texas deputy has died of head injuries suffered when he was attacked by an injured cow while he directed traffic around the half-ton animal. Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith says Deputy Robert Britton of Tyler died Monday at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, where he&#8217;d been since the incident &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=81678\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deputy Dies From Injuries after Cow Attack<\/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-81678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 02:35:12","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\/81678","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=81678"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81997,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81678\/revisions\/81997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}