{"id":156525,"date":"2026-02-09T02:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156525\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:35:21","slug":"manhunt-underway-for-suspect-in-deadly-hearne-texas-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156525\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt underway for suspect in deadly Hearne, Texas, shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">HEARNE, Texas (KWTX) &#8211;<\/a> Authorities in Texas are looking for the suspect in a deadly shooting in Hearne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Monterrius Smith, Jr., 23, is wanted in the murder of Tavion Hyman, 23, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, at approximately 1:30 am, officers with the Hearne Police Department responded to the Eastside Apartment complex, located at 1102 South Riley Street, to investigate a shots fired report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Upon arrival, officers discovered Hyman suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The man succumbed to his injuries at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Smith, Jr. fled the scene of the shooting and is believed to be armed and dangerous. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was last seen driving a 2020 Chevrolet Malibu with Texas license plate SMG5523.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If anyone has information to Smith\u2019s location or has information about this incident, please contact the Hearne Police Department at 979-279-5333.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HEARNE, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; Authorities in Texas are looking for the suspect in a deadly shooting in Hearne.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64484,64479,64485,64482,64481,64483,27,29,64480,28],"class_list":["post-156525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-eastside-apartment-complex-in-hearne","tag-hearne","tag-hearne-police-department","tag-jr-wanted-in-deadly-shooting","tag-monterrius-smith","tag-tavion-hyman-shot-and-killed-in-hearne","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-murder","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156525","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=156525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}