{"id":112269,"date":"2026-01-06T03:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112269\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:28:31","slug":"court-documents-reveal-details-in-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-in-slaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112269\/","title":{"rendered":"Court documents reveal details in fatal officer-involved shooting in Slaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Court documents reveal new details about what led up to a shooting involving a Slaton police officer last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The documents show Alex Martinez and Alex Melgar-Matheu broke into a home near East Division and South 7th in Slaton and threatened two women. Each of them are reported to have been armed with large knives during the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One of the women was able to call 911. Slaton police officers responded to the home and the officer-involved shooting occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Melgar-Matheu was killed. Martinez was arrested and charged with burglary with other felony intentions, aggravated assault, and unlawful restraint while threatening serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Texas Rangers are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Court documents reveal new details about what led up to a shooting involving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49763,66,168,170,169,223,5225,12126,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-112269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-court-documents","9":"tag-local","10":"tag-lubbock","11":"tag-lubbock-headlines","12":"tag-lubbock-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-officer-involved-shooting","15":"tag-slaton","16":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}