{"id":281608,"date":"2026-05-06T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281608\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:29:09","slug":"body-found-near-petronila-school-identified-as-79-year-old-man-medical-examiner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281608\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found near Petronila school identified as 79-year-old man, medical examiner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies say the investigation remains ongoing after remains were discovered near Belk Lane by Petronila elementary.<\/p>\n<p>PETRONILA, Texas \u2014 The Nueces County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has identified the man whose remains were found near Petronila school on Tuesday as 79-year-old Romeo Rocha.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Nueces County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, deputies and Criminal Investigation Division detectives responded to the area near Belk Lane after what appeared to be human remains were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Rocha\u2019s family has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not released additional details about the circumstances surrounding the discovery or how Rocha died.<\/p>\n<p>Belk Lane was temporarily closed on Tuesday while deputies investigated the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies say the investigation remains ongoing after remains were discovered near Belk Lane by Petronila elementary. PETRONILA, Texas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-281608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281608","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=281608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}