{"id":821879,"date":"2019-10-02T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=821879"},"modified":"2019-10-03T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T19:36:15","slug":"non-fatal-police-shooting-in-gregg-county-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=821879","title":{"rendered":"Non-Fatal Police Shooting in Gregg County Justified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/06\/grand-jury-room-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-366359\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Gregg County Grand Jury has found Longview Police Officers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Use of Deadly Force Justified during the apprehension of a murder suspect last July. The Gregg  County  Grand  Jury  absolved Longview Police Officers Doug Brinkley, Armondo Juarezortega, Jonathan Wolf and Kerry Higginbotham in their use of deadly force during the apprehension of Kenneth Earl Thomas Jr. who is a suspect in the murder of Kimberly  Wallace. A Texas Rangers investigation into  the non-fatal shooting of Thomas was turned over to the Gregg County D.A. who found that Thomas opened fire upon the Officers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thomas fled from the Officers and a running gun fight ensued resulting in Thomas being struck in the buttocks  area. The Longview Officers took Thomas into custody and applied first aid until EMS  arrived. Thomas was treated for the non-life threatening injuries. Thomas is currently in the Gregg County Jail. The  Grand Jury unanimously found that Officers Brinkley, Juarezortega, Wolf and Higginbotham were justified in their use of deadly force during  this incident. the Grand Jury declined to bring any charges against the Officers and they  are cleared of any wrong doing in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Gregg County Grand Jury has found Longview Police Officers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Use of Deadly Force Justified during the apprehension of a murder suspect last July. The Gregg County Grand Jury absolved Longview Police Officers Doug Brinkley, Armondo Juarezortega, Jonathan Wolf and Kerry Higginbotham in their use of deadly force during the apprehension of Kenneth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=821879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Non-Fatal Police Shooting in Gregg County Justified<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":366359,"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-821879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 20:40:50","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\/821879","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821884,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821879\/revisions\/821884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/366359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}