SAN ANTONIO – Police were investigating after officers found a deceased man under a bridge following a call reporting a possible body.<\/p>\n
Around 8 p.m. on Sunday, police were called to the scene of a reported body found near the corner of South Laredo Street and South Alamo Street, near Downtown.<\/p>\n
According to a statement provided at the scene, officers were dispatched \u201cby an unknown caller\u201d who reported, \u201cthere may potentially be a body laying under the bridge.\u201d Officers arrived and \u201cfound a man face down very early on in the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man \u201cis deceased, and he\u2019s been pronounced by SAFD and EMS,\u201d the statement said. The medical examiner was also at the scene, and a follow-up unit had just arrived.<\/p>\n
Investigators said it was still unclear whether the death was a homicide or due to natural causes. \u201cUnknown whether potential homicide or something of more natural causes, but he appears to be homeless,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
When asked whether it appeared the man had been there for a while, the statement said, \u201cIt does,\u201d adding that \u201cbased on the evidence right now around his body,\u201d it looked like he \u201chas been there for some time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man was described as middle-aged. \u201cMaybe if I had to put a number to him, maybe 40, maybe late 40,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
The man’s death remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Police were investigating after officers found a deceased man under a bridge following a call…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-428469","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\/428469","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=428469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}