{"id":5839,"date":"2025-10-16T00:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5839\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:29:10","slug":"family-seeking-justice-for-lawrence-brantleys-death-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5839\/","title":{"rendered":"Family seeking justice for Lawrence Brantley\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Nearly two months after 18-year-old Lawrence Brantley was shot and killed in Lubbock, his mother says she\u2019s still searching for answers and peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Myesha Thomas says every day without justice is another reminder of the night that changed her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cHonestly, I\u2019m still kind of in shock for one. A little bit of denial just because I still have that feeling that my child will walk through that door, he\u2019s going to call or something. i still feel like he\u2019s going to come back,\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Police have identified 23-year-old Kendrick \u201cSkrilla\u201d Taylor as the suspect in Brantley\u2019s death. He remains on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/news\/crips-gang-member-lubbock-added-10-most-wanted-list\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/news\/crips-gang-member-lubbock-added-10-most-wanted-list\">Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives<\/a> list and is wanted for murder. The Texas Department of Public Safety is offering a reward of up to $7,5000 for information leading to his arrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI still don\u2019t know the true story. I don\u2019t know how it begins and the only part I know that his life was taken. That\u2019s it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Anyone with information about Taylor\u2019s whereabouts is asked to contact Texas Crime Stoppers. Tips can be submitted anonymously at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477) or through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/Texas10MostWanted\/MostWanted\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dps.texas.gov\/Texas10MostWanted\/MostWanted\">DPS website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Nearly two months after 18-year-old Lawrence Brantley was shot and killed in Lubbock, his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5867,319,5863,5866,66,168,170,169,636,5868,95,5864,5865,5869],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-brantley","tag-kcbd","tag-kendrick","tag-lawrence","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-murder","tag-myesha","tag-shooting","tag-skirlla","tag-taylor","tag-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","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=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}