{"id":907137,"date":"2020-07-07T08:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=885537"},"modified":"2020-07-07T08:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T13:50:23","slug":"tyler-man-arrested-for-suspected-gang-related-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=907137","title":{"rendered":"Tyler man arrested for suspected gang-related murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-885538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/07\/ORTZ-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; A Tyler man is behind bars on a murder charge for a Smith County shooting that left two Hispanic men dead last week. According to our news partner KETK, Ramiro Ortiz, 34, was booked Friday, July 3 for the deaths of Justino Rosales-Betancourt, 32, and Jose Betancourt, 35. He is being held on a $1.5 million bond. The shooting happened June 29 on Hwy 110 north. At the beginning of the investigation, Sheriff Larry Smith said that it was suspected the men \u00e2\u20ac\u0153had a relationship and\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s believed to be gang-related.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A third man, 20-year-old Saul Morado, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital by a private car.<!--more--> A motive for the shooting has still not been made clear by investigators. Officials from several agencies are involved in the investigation, including Homeland Security.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; A Tyler man is behind bars on a murder charge for a Smith County shooting that left two Hispanic men dead last week. According to our news partner KETK, Ramiro Ortiz, 34, was booked Friday, July 3 for the deaths of Justino Rosales-Betancourt, 32, and Jose Betancourt, 35. He is being held &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=907137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler man arrested for suspected gang-related murder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":885538,"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-907137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 19:25:01","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\/907137","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=907137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}