{"id":230062,"date":"2026-04-01T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230062\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:50:13","slug":"body-found-burning-with-hands-bound-in-san-antonio-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/230062\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found burning with hands bound in San Antonio identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/640_ktsanews-640x382.jpg\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Body found burning with hands bound in San Antonio identified\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 The Bexar County Medical Examiner is identifying a body found burning and bound on the Southeast Side over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported the condition of the body might make identification difficult, but we now know the person found dead was Manuel Gomez Mendez Jr., 84. While a name has been attached to the case, the cause of death and other details remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses called in the fire around 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, but it was not known that a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsa.com\/sapd-body-found-burning-bound-in-shower-curtain-on-southeast-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> body was on fire<\/a> until the San Antonio Fire Department arrived on the scene. From there, homicide detectives began asking questions to witnesses in the area of Rigsby Avenue and Roland Road.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives say Mendez was not only severely burned, but his hands were bound and his body was wrapped up in a shower curtain, along with other materials.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word on any potential suspects in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Stay tuned to 550 KTSA and FM 107.1 for the latest in this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014 The Bexar County Medical Examiner is identifying a body found burning and bound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64720,11574,88327,88328,88967,88968,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-230062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-bexar-county-medical-examiner","9":"tag-body","10":"tag-bound","11":"tag-burning","12":"tag-identifying","13":"tag-manuel-gomez-mendez-jr","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","16":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230062","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=230062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}