{"id":121444,"date":"2026-01-13T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121444\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:29:11","slug":"lubbock-metro-asking-public-for-information-in-2023-central-lubbock-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/121444\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Metro asking public for information in 2023 central Lubbock homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit continues to ask for the public\u2019s assistance in solving a 2023 homicide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LPD says police were called to the area of 19th Street and Avenue M around 5:30 a.m. on January 13th for a report of shots fired. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Upon arrival, officers located 40-year-old David Perez, with a gunshot wound to his side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was transported to UMC with serious injuries, where he later died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Through the initial course of the investigation, it appears, Perez was in the back of his house when he was shot by an unknown suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On January 17, 2023, Lubbock Metro released an image of a black four-door sedan as a possible vehicle of interest as it was seen in the area at the time the shooting was reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call Crime Line at (806) 741-1000. Callers could be eligible for a reward up to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit continues to ask for the public\u2019s assistance in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52807,294,52806,8469,1739,168,170,169,5761,52805],"class_list":{"0":"post-121444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-19th-street-and-ave-m","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-david-perez","11":"tag-help","12":"tag-lpd","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-metro","17":"tag-publich"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121444","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=121444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}