{"id":482009,"date":"2026-10-31T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482009\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:00:07","slug":"assistant-district-attorney-dies-after-serving-uvalde-real-counties-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482009\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant District Attorney dies after serving Uvalde, Real counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UVALDE, Texas \u2014 Erin Marie Benavides, a former assistant district attorney who served Uvalde and Real counties, died Oct. 14 in Port Aransas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Port Aransas Police Department, officers responded about 7:34 p.m. to a welfare concern in the 200 block of West Oaks Avenue. Officers found Benavides dead inside a residence with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>Police said no foul play is suspected, but the investigation remains active.<\/p>\n<p>Benavides served Uvalde and Real counties from January 2023 through August 2026, the 38th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office said in a Facebook post. She worked with the office\u2019s Border Prosecution Unit, managing a heavy caseload focused on pending human smuggling cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UVALDE, Texas \u2014 Erin Marie Benavides, a former assistant district attorney who served Uvalde and Real counties, died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-482009","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\/482009","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=482009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}