{"id":459697,"date":"2026-10-08T02:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459697\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T02:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:54:07","slug":"lubbock-county-sheriffs-office-searching-for-missing-38-year-old-man-with-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459697\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office searching for missing 38-year-old man with Down syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office is searching for a missing 38-year-old man who was last seen Wednesday evening west of Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities say Brantly Slocum, who has Down syndrome, was last seen at his home around 6 p.m. on Oct. 7, near North County Road 1500 and County Road 6400.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Slocum is believed to be traveling west on foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was last seen wearing a gray or blue shirt and dark blue shorts. Authorities say he may also be wearing an orange shirt or jacket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Slocum does not have his glasses with him, which he requires to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At this time, the sheriff\u2019s office is not requesting volunteers to assist in the search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone who sees Slocum or has information about his whereabouts is asked to contact the Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 806-775-1600.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office is searching for a missing 38-year-old man who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[113399,168,170,169,671,46781,157243,1733],"class_list":["post-459697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-down-syndrome","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-missing","tag-missing-man","tag-searching","tag-sheriffs-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459697","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=459697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}