{"id":229678,"date":"2026-04-01T04:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229678\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:17:06","slug":"body-found-in-east-side-brush-fire-had-hands-bound-report-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229678\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in East Side brush fire had hands bound, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; New details have emerged about the body found last weekend as crews battled a brush fire on the East Side.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were called out around 7:30 a.m. on March 29 to an area off Rigsby Avenue near Algin Avenue after a passerby saw a fire in the ditch. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/firefighters-find-wrapped-body-while-extinguishing-east-side-brush-fire-murder-rigsby-san-antonio#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Firefighters find wrapped body while extinguishing East Side brush fire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The police report says that while crews were putting out the fire, they discovered a human body wrapped in a jacket or shower curtain. Also, the person was &#8220;bound by his hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bexar County Medical Examiner identified the victim as Manuel Gomez Mendez Jr., 84, on Tuesday. His cause and manner of death are still pending release. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; New details have emerged about the body found last weekend as crews battled a brush&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-229678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229678","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=229678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}