{"id":533,"date":"2020-02-05T07:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T13:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/dc-civil\/update-repeat-dwi-offender-who-killed-marine-veteran-sued-by-family\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T07:47:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:47:40","slug":"update-repeat-dwi-offender-who-killed-marine-veteran-sued-by-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/update-repeat-dwi-offender-who-killed-marine-veteran-sued-by-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Killed Marine Veteran Sued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2\/5\/2020- <\/strong>Chaz Thames, who we reported in November killed Melvin Taylor when he was driving north in the southbound lane of Dallas North Tollway, is being sued by the family.\u00a0 Thames\u2019 charges have been upgraded from intoxicated manslaughter to murder.\u00a0 \u201cWhen you have someone with multiple felony DWIs, that in and of itself tells you something and we shouldn\u2019t have to be here today to realize that\u2019s a problem,\u201d said Cochran Firm attorney Larry Taylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/wrong-way-crash-victims-family-sues-repeat-dwi-offender\" target=\"_blank\">Fox 4 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\/5\/2020- Chaz Thames, who we reported in November killed Melvin Taylor when he was driving north in the southbound lane of Dallas North Tollway, is being sued by the family.\u00a0 Thames\u2019 charges have been upgraded from intoxicated manslaughter to murder.\u00a0 \u201cWhen you have someone with multiple felony DWIs, that in and of itself tells you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Man who killed Marine veteran sued %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"Melvin Taylor&#039;s killer, Chaz Thames is being sued by Taylor&#039;s family. Thames&#039; charges have been upgraded from intoxicated manslaughter to murder.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"Chaz Thames,marine veteran killer","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}