{"id":452761,"date":"2026-10-01T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452761\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:14:07","slug":"juvenile-arrested-charged-with-homicide-in-houston-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452761\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile arrested, charged with homicide in Houston County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIN, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 A teenager is facing serious charges after a deadly shooting Monday night in Houston County.<\/p>\n<p>Special agents with the <a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/tbi-investigates-officer-involved-shooting-in-chattanooga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tennessee Bureau of Investigation <\/a>started looking into the case Tuesday after 22-year-old Ezekiel Ochoa was killed on Clay Tomlinson Road. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said there was a fight between the teenager and Ochoa, and the situation got worse, leading agents to believe the teen shot and killed Ochoa. A petition for one count of criminal homicide was issued.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager is being held in juvenile detention waiting for a hearing. <\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON COUNTY NEWS | <a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/9-puppies-rescued-after-they-were-abandoned-at-a-houston-county-property\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">9 puppies abandoned at Houston County property rescued<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The teen is considered innocent until proven guilty in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIN, Tenn. (WZTV) \u2014 A teenager is facing serious charges after a deadly shooting Monday night in Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-452761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452761","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=452761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}