{"id":263083,"date":"2026-04-23T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263083\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:12:09","slug":"78-year-old-man-arrested-following-deadly-shooting-in-south-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263083\/","title":{"rendered":"78-year-old man arrested following deadly shooting in south Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 78-year-old man is in jail after admitting to shooting and killing a 37-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the department received a report of gunfire at 7:20 p.m. Wednesday on the 1600 block of 126th St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Michael Vernie Owens made the call and said he shot and killed Michael Joseph Owens. Deputies arrived at the location and found Michael Joseph Owens with a fatal gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Michael Vernie Owens remained on the scene and was arrested on a murder warrant. LCSO said the investigation is now being conducted by the Lubbock Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Michael Vernie Owens is currently in the Lubbock County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A 78-year-old man is in jail after admitting to shooting and killing a 37-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[294,5456,98527,45063,1739,168,170,169,98526,98525,223,95,5159],"class_list":{"0":"post-263083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-deadly-shooting","10":"tag-investigationg","11":"tag-lcso","12":"tag-lpd","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-metro-unit","17":"tag-michael-vernie-owens","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-shooting","20":"tag-south-lubbock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263083","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=263083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}