Body Found in Burned Home

RUSK COUNTY – Authorities say a body has been found in a burned-down East Texas home. According to KETK, Saturday night, Rusk County officials got a 911 call from someone on County Road 2142A, near Tatum. The caller said his brother was drunk and shooting a gun in his front yard. When a deputy arrived, they didn’t find a man shooting, but they found the caller’s mobile home engulfed in flames. After the Tatum Fire Department put out the fire that destroyed the mobile home, they found a body inside.

Rusk County Chief Deputy Ron Duncan says three brothers lived in two different mobile homes on the property. “The one that lived by himself was apparently asleep when all this took place and…there’s still a lot of investigating we need to do,” Duncan said. Duncan says the body has been sent to Dallas for autopsy. He says there was no sign of foul play on the scene, and the fire seems to have originated at a wood-burning stove in the mobile home.