{"id":120024,"date":"2026-01-12T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120024\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:57:13","slug":"3-dead-2-injured-in-late-sunday-night-shooting-in-slaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/120024\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead, 2 injured in late Sunday night shooting in Slaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; 3 people are dead and 2 others were injured in a shooting late Sunday night in Slaton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office says deputies responded to a call to assist the Slaton Police Department just before 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to LSO, Slaton PD received a call for multiple gunshot victims near the 300 block of East Floyd Street (South 7th Street and East Floyd Street). <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When officers arrived, they found three people with fatal gunshot wounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers also located two more people injured, each with gunshot wounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say both were transported to a local hospital by EMS and have since been stabilized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At this time, there is no ongoing threat to the public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LSO says through the initial investigation, officials believe one of the deceased individuals was the shooter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This investigation has been turned over to the Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Names of those involved were not released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; 3 people are dead and 2 others were injured in a shooting late Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52303,52302,30280,19890,168,170,169,21461,6057,95,12126,14216,52304,27],"class_list":["post-120024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-2-injured","tag-3-dead","tag-floyd","tag-lso","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-night","tag-officers","tag-shooting","tag-slaton","tag-street","tag-sunday","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120024","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=120024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}