{"id":134617,"date":"2026-01-28T06:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134617\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:54:17","slug":"second-man-arrested-after-2024-shooting-death-of-jacksonville-teenager-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/134617\/","title":{"rendered":"Second man arrested after 2024 shooting death of Jacksonville teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHEROKEE COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; A second person has been arrested in connection with the 2024 shooting death of a Cherokee County teenager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Randarriuz Dewberry, 20, of Jacksonville, was held Tuesday at the Cherokee County Jail on bonds totaling $1.085 million for two counts charging him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and additional charges of evading arrest and failure to identify, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dewberry is the second person arrested in connection with the Feb. 14, 2024, shooting death of Jayden Polk, 17. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas troopers arrested the man during a traffic stop Thursday on Farm-to-Market Road 346 near Bullard, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cherokee County deputies responded to the shooting and found Polk with severe gunshot wounds, according to Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson. He was later pronounced dead at nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Further investigation revealed that a 20-year-old male, later identified as Isiah Mallord, of Jacksonville, was taken by a private vehicle to a nearby hospital before being flown to a Tyler hospital in critical condition, Dickson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both men were involved in an argument before the shooting, Dickson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It is unclear how Dewberry was involved in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KTRE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHEROKEE COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; A second person has been arrested in connection with the 2024 shooting death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[65601,5678,116,118,117,65602,1933,215],"class_list":{"0":"post-134617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-bullard","9":"tag-cherokee-county","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-jayden-polk","14":"tag-murder","15":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}