{"id":913707,"date":"2020-08-09T09:57:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T14:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=913707"},"modified":"2020-08-10T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T22:04:23","slug":"smith-county-murder-suspect-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=913707","title":{"rendered":"Smith County murder suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-913767\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/08\/marin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; The Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office continues to investigate an early morning homicide. Deputies responded to a home on CR 384 in Tyler around 5:30 Sunday morning after being contacted by UT Health EMS regarding a woman dead from a gunshot wound. She&#8217;s been identified as Diamond Samantha Cruz, 21, of Tyler. Deputies received information that the suspect had fled the area in an unknown direction driving a Ford pickup. The suspect vehicle description was immediately broadcast to additional law enforcement agencies.<!--more--> A short time later, officers located the suspect&#8217;s wrecked vehicle on\u00c2\u00a0 of E. Commerce Street. The suspect apparently fled on foot and a search is underway. Investigators made contact with the suspects several hours later and he agreed to turn himself in.\u00c2\u00a0 Marin Jr., 21, Tyler, was arrested at a home on Confederate. He was booked into the Smith County Jail on a charge of murder with bond set at $500,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; The Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office continues to investigate an early morning homicide. Deputies responded to a home on CR 384 in Tyler around 5:30 Sunday morning after being contacted by UT Health EMS regarding a woman dead from a gunshot wound. She&#8217;s been identified as Diamond Samantha Cruz, 21, of Tyler. Deputies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=913707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County murder suspect arrested<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"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-913707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 19:51:25","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\/913707","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=913707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913768,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913707\/revisions\/913768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}