{"id":368446,"date":"2026-07-10T17:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368446\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:09:13","slug":"victim-named-in-marion-county-texas-shooting-turned-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/368446\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim named in Marion County, Texas, shooting turned murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MARION COUNTY, Texas (KSLA) &#8211; The name of the victim of the June 29 shooting turned murder in Marion County has been released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Caycen Nolan Mutai was named as the victim who was shot and killed in Jefferson, Texas, on June 29, according to the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Department (MCSD).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksla.com\/page\/ksla-streaming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"KSLA\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783703353_472_CJULBREU3RAOTLOR7JDJACWJXM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Xavier Lakeno Zachery was arrested and booked into Marion County Jail the next day, on June 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He has been charged with murder for the shooting that resulted in the death of Mutai, says MCSD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No other information will be released while this case is being investigated, says the sheriff\u2019s department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2026\/06\/30\/1-dead-1-arrested-marion-county-shooting\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2026\/06\/30\/1-dead-1-arrested-marion-county-shooting\/\">Original Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KSLA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARION COUNTY, Texas (KSLA) &#8211; The name of the victim of the June 29 shooting turned murder in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130548,130550,130547,130546,27,29,28,130545,130549],"class_list":["post-368446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-caycen-nolan-mutai","tag-marion-county-sheriffs-department","tag-marion-county-texas","tag-shooting-turned-murder","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-victim-named-in-marion-county","tag-xavier-lakeno-zachery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368446","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=368446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}