{"id":116901,"date":"2026-01-09T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116901\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:47:08","slug":"houston-county-teen-believed-to-be-murder-victim-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/116901\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston County teen believed to be murder victim, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">COWARTS Ala. (WTVY) -Houston County deputies are investigating the apparent murder of a teenager that happened overnight, multiple sources confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 15-year-old\u2019s body was found at a Jordon Avenue home in the Cowarts area of Houston County, and deputies are pursuing multiple leads, per sources. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston County Sheriff Donald Valenza could not immediately be reached for comment to provide additional information, though he will likely issue a statement later Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The name of the person found dead was not immediately made public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Download the WTVY News4 app to get alerts and stories the moment they are published. Available for FREE in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wtvy-news-4\/id420970403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wtvy-news-4\/id420970403\">Apple App Store<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.graytv.android.wtvynews&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.graytv.android.wtvynews&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\">Google Play Store!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WTVY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COWARTS Ala. (WTVY) -Houston County deputies are investigating the apparent murder of a teenager that happened overnight, multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[51401,51402,56,51400,58,57,10320],"class_list":["post-116901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-cowarts","tag-donald-valenza","tag-houston","tag-houston-county-murder","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-teen-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116901","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=116901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}