{"id":340740,"date":"2026-06-18T02:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340740\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T02:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:39:08","slug":"texas-state-trooper-killed-in-line-of-duty-crash-on-u-s-287-near-childress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/340740\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas state trooper killed in line-of-duty crash on U.S. 287 near Childress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHILDRESS, Texas (KVII) \u2014 A Texas state trooper was killed in a line-of-duty crash near Childress following a traffic stop on 287.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Trooper Sergio Romero was killed when a truck-tractor semi-trailer pulled out in front of him, &#8220;causing his patrol unit to collide with the vehicle.&#8221; Trooper Romero died on scene. <\/p>\n<p>Romero served with the Hall Co. Sheriff&#8217;s Office prior to joining DPS in 2025. He was stationed in Childress. <\/p>\n<p>Trooper Romero is survived by his wife and two young sons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHILDRESS, Texas (KVII) \u2014 A Texas state trooper was killed in a line-of-duty crash near Childress following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-340740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340740","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=340740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}