{"id":350651,"date":"2026-06-25T23:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350651\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:12:37","slug":"athens-man-sentenced-to-18-years-for-wreck-that-killed-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350651\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens man sentenced to 18 years for wreck that killed woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A man was sentenced to 18 years in prison after driving while intoxicated in a crash that killed a Tyler woman in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jercorion Jaterence Johnson, 22, of Athens, testified in his own defense and apologized for the wreck that killed Monica Bingham, 49, in July 2024. He admitted to being \u201chigh\u201d during a crash on U.S. 175 and did not remember much of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Testimony also showed he was arrested for driving while intoxicated while he was out on bond in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; A man was sentenced to 18 years in prison after driving while intoxicated in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[268,294,116,118,117,2128,9011,9635],"class_list":["post-350651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-crash","tag-crime","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-trial","tag-tyler","tag-wreck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350651","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=350651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}