{"id":821131,"date":"2019-09-30T10:57:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=821131"},"modified":"2019-10-01T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T15:57:00","slug":"burglary-suspect-fatally-shot-by-gregg-county-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=821131","title":{"rendered":"Burglary Suspect Fatally Shot by Gregg County Deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/09\/Moegan-Dewayne-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-821175\" \/>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; Texas Rangers are investigating after a Gregg County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deputy shot and killed a burglary suspect. The suspect was later identified as Dewayne Morgan W\/M age 37 of Tatum, deputies responded to a call at the home off I-20, near the West Access Road, at 10:47 Sunday night. The homeowner told deputies he had shot at the burglar, but it&#8217;s unclear if the burglar was hit. The suspect ran across I-20 into the eastbound ditch where the deputy used his taser. A violent encounter ensued, and the deputy shot the man. The suspect was transported to a Marshall hospital where he later died. The deputy was transported to a separate hospital for treatment of his injuries,and later released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; Texas Rangers are investigating after a Gregg County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deputy shot and killed a burglary suspect. The suspect was later identified as Dewayne Morgan W\/M age 37 of Tatum, deputies responded to a call at the home off I-20, near the West Access Road, at 10:47 Sunday night. The homeowner told deputies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=821131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burglary Suspect Fatally Shot by Gregg County Deputy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":821175,"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-821131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:25:34","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\/821131","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821131"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821176,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821131\/revisions\/821176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/821175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}