{"id":735153,"date":"2026-06-25T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735153\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:27:31","slug":"texas-rangers-investigate-after-marion-county-deputy-shoots-armed-domestic-violence-suspect-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/735153\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers investigate after Marion County deputy shoots armed domestic violence suspect | East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">JEFFERSON, Texas \u2014 A domestic violence call in Marion County escalated into an officer-involved shooting Wednesday evening after a suspect opened fire on law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies responded to a domestic incident in the 2700 block of Highway 49 around 7:15 p.m. Officers encountered a man armed with a rifle. The suspect discharged the weapon, hitting a marked Marion County patrol unit.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Additional deputies and a Texas State Game Warden arrived at the location to assist. Law enforcement officials ordered the suspect to drop his weapons, but he refused. When the subject raised his gun toward the officers, a Marion County deputy fired his service weapon and hit the suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">He was taken into custody at the scene and flown to Ochsner LSU Hospital in Shreveport for treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">The Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has requested the assistance of the Texas Rangers, who will lead the ongoing investigation into the shooting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=ktbs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/google_preferred_source_badge_light_en.png\" width=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JEFFERSON, Texas \u2014 A domestic violence call in Marion County escalated into an officer-involved shooting Wednesday evening after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[64627,5,66425,91511,4,149,1567,43566,91510,69,3240],"class_list":["post-735153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-american-frontier","tag-baseball","tag-marion-county","tag-marion-county-sheriff","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-texas-military-department","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116810511029530593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}