{"id":288199,"date":"2026-05-11T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:19:10","slug":"multiple-people-found-dead-inside-a-train-boxcar-in-laredo-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288199\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple people found dead inside a train boxcar in Laredo \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778519950_382_.webp\" alt=\"Laredo, Texas\"\/>Laredo, Texas  (Gabriel Cardenas for TPR)<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.tpr.org\/a\/tpr-newsletter-signup?_gl=1*1qdmxfl*_ga*MjI5ODI0MTQ5LjE2NDUxMjA0MTM.*_ga_0B2CYK6231*czE3NjI1NTQ2ODUkbzM0NDMkZzEkdDE3NjI1NTQ2OTIkajUzJGwwJGgw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TPR Today<\/a>, Texas Public Radio\u2019s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning.<\/p>\n<p>Six people were found dead inside a Union Pacific train boxcar in a Texas border city on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Laredo Police Department said the bodies were discovered at around 3 p.m. during a routine rail car inspection by train employees.<\/p>\n<p>Laredo police and fire fighters responded to the scene. Laredo police officer Joe Baeza says all six individuals were discovered perished at the Union Pacific rail yard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of them were transported,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were no live people who were discovered in that same car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is still active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>No information has so far been released about the identities of the victims or the circumstances of their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures in Laredo reached the upper 90s on Sunday. The city is home to one of the nation\u2019s top trade hubs.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laredo, Texas (Gabriel Cardenas for TPR) Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio\u2019s newsletter that brings our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,7686,865,223,1225,27,2053,12733,840,35963],"class_list":["post-288199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-laredo","tag-law-enforcement","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-texas","tag-top-stories","tag-tpr","tag-transportation","tag-union-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288199","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=288199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}