{"id":32439,"date":"2025-11-02T23:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32439\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T23:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:32:06","slug":"he-was-my-hero-honoring-the-life-and-legacy-of-sheriff-leroy-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32439\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He was my hero&#8221; | Honoring the life and legacy of Sheriff Leroy Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Former San Patricio County Sheriff Leroy Moody has died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Current San Patricio County Sheriff Oscar Rivera took to social media to share the news Sunday morning, &#8220;Sad news to report this morning to the citizens of San Patricio County. \u00a0With our deepest sympathy to the family of Sheriff Leroy Moody we regret to announce his passing late last night. \u00a0Sheriff Moody served the citizens of this county 55 years, 30 of those years as our beloved Sheriff. \u00a0He was my mentor, \u00a0he was my hero, I will miss my friend\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moody was elected sheriff in 1989 after he served as deputy. He<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/san-patricio-county-sheriff-leroy-moody-retiring-after-54-years\/503-ff1493a7-a3b3-4da2-8d55-ce44c4874c54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0retired from the position\u00a0<\/a>in 2019. Over the years, Moody said he had seen amazing growth in South Texas, especially in Sinton where the San Patricio County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is located.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/sheriff-leroy-moody-has-died\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Former San Patricio County Sheriff Leroy Moody has died.\u00a0 Current San Patricio County Sheriff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-32439","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\/32439","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=32439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}