{"id":67148,"date":"2026-02-24T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/witness-to-immigration-agents-killing-of-friend-last-year-dies-in-texas-car-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:56:58","slug":"witness-to-immigration-agents-killing-of-friend-last-year-dies-in-texas-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/witness-to-immigration-agents-killing-of-friend-last-year-dies-in-texas-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness to immigration agent\u2019s killing of friend last year dies in Texas car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Orta was passenger when Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot in his car by immigration agent in March 2025<\/p>\n<p>The passenger in the car when Texas driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/us-citizen-killed-federal-immigration-agent\">Ruben Ray Martinez<\/a> was fatally shot in March 2025 by a federal immigration agent gave a lengthy statement to lawyers for the slain man\u2019s family disputing the government\u2019s version of events.<\/p>\n<p>That witness died on Saturday in a fiery car crash in San Antonio, a lawyer for Martinez\u2019s family said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/witness-immigration-agent-killing-car-crash-texas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Orta was passenger when Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot in his car by immigration agent in March 2025 The passenger in the car when Texas driver Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot in March 2025 by a federal immigration agent gave a lengthy statement to lawyers for the slain man\u2019s family disputing the &#8230; <a title=\"Witness to immigration agent\u2019s killing of friend last year dies in Texas car crash\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/witness-to-immigration-agents-killing-of-friend-last-year-dies-in-texas-car-crash\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Witness to immigration agent\u2019s killing of friend last year dies in Texas car crash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}