{"id":141977,"date":"2026-01-20T19:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:53:10","slug":"man-found-dead-in-pickup-truck-in-east-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141977\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in pickup truck in East LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dpp2y3j8jbii36be.jpg\" alt=\"Man found dead in East Los Angeles\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; A death investigation was launched in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/los-angeles\/east-la\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">East Los Angeles<\/a> after a man was found dead inside a pickup truck, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Deputies with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/organization\/lasd\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LA County Sheriff&#8217;s Department <\/a>were called to the scene around 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Arriving deputies discovered a man in the driver&#8217;s seat of a black pickup truck in the area of Telegraph Road and South Woods Avenue, just off the 5 Freeway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">SkyFOX flew over the scene and showed damage to the truck&#8217;s window on the passenger side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The name of the victim has not been released, and no further information has been released by authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written with information from the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department and FOX 11 Justin O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s reporting from SkyFOX.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/los-angeles\/east-la\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Los Angeles<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8211; A death investigation was launched in East Los Angeles after a man was found dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1184,2042,17042,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,100,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-141977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-east-la","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-county","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}