{"id":423905,"date":"2026-09-02T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423905\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:12:12","slug":"man-found-dead-clothing-still-smoldering-after-apparent-electrocution-and-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/423905\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead, clothing still smoldering after apparent electrocution and fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A young man was found dead with electrical burns and injuries from an apparent fall early Wednesday morning on the West Side.<\/p>\n<p>Police and firefighters were called just before 5 a.m. to the area of Ruiz Street and North San Marcos Street after a passerby spotted what appeared to be a body on fire in the parking lot of the Kozy Corner Saloon.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived, the man&#8217;s clothing was still smoldering. They extinguished it and discovered the man was already dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man appeared to be in his early to mid-20s and had electrical burns along with injuries consistent with a fall.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what happened remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A large electrical tower stands near the parking lot where the man&#8217;s body was discovered. Investigators had not confirmed whether the man had been on the tower or how far he may have fallen.<\/p>\n<p>There were no known witnesses to what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Two women initially arrived at the scene because they were concerned the person might be a friend they believed was suicidal. Police later determined the man who died was not their friend.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still working to determine how he was electrocuted, where he fell from and what led up to his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A young man was found dead with electrical burns and injuries from an apparent fall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-423905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423905","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=423905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}