{"id":293144,"date":"2026-05-14T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293144\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:01:07","slug":"lubbock-man-sentenced-to-probation-for-deadly-2022-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293144\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock man sentenced to probation for deadly 2022 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock man, who was originally charged with two counts of manslaughter and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, was sentenced to five years of differed adjudication by Judge Douglas Freitag in the 140th District Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jordan Merchant was arrested in 2022 after a crash that killed Joni Smith and her nine-year-old son Conrad Thomlison near 114th St. and Indiana Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Smith was taken to UMC with serious injuries where she later died. Investigators said Smith was driving north on Indiana Ave. when she attempted to make a left turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Merchant then hit Smith in the intersection resulting in the two deaths. Two other children in Smith\u2019s car were seriously injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock man, who was originally charged with two counts of manslaughter and two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[11852,2441,268,7553,107090,107091,66,168,170,56355,169,223,19630,20373],"class_list":["post-293144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-brandon-soliz","tag-court","tag-crash","tag-deadly","tag-joni-smith","tag-jordan-merchant","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-man","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-probation","tag-umc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293144","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=293144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}