{"id":1074842,"date":"2021-11-17T11:52:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1074842"},"modified":"2021-11-18T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:52:00","slug":"actor-longview-native-heath-freeman-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1074842","title":{"rendered":"Actor, Longview native Heath Freeman dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1074847\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/heath-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>AUSTIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Actor and producer Heath Freeman, known for his roles in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NCIS\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bones,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has died at the age of 41, his manager announced Tuesday. According to our news partner KETK, Freeman was from Longview and graduated from Pine Tree High School. According to NBC News, manager Joe S. Montifiore confirmed his death Tuesday morning, although the circumstances surrounding Freeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death are not yet known. Freeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s IMDb page says he played killer Howard Epps on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bones\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from 2005 to 2007 and Benjamin Frank on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NCIS.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Freeman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body was transported from Austin, where he resided, to Rader Funeral Home in his hometown of Longview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Actor and producer Heath Freeman, known for his roles in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NCIS\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bones,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has died at the age of 41, his manager announced Tuesday. According to our news partner KETK, Freeman was from Longview and graduated from Pine Tree High School. According to NBC News, manager Joe S. Montifiore confirmed his death Tuesday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1074842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Actor, Longview native Heath Freeman dies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1074850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/heath-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Actor, Longview native Heath Freeman dies","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 03:01:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/heath-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Actor, Longview native Heath Freeman dies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074842"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075282,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074842\/revisions\/1075282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}