{"id":143888,"date":"2011-11-23T13:21:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T19:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=143888"},"modified":"2011-11-24T02:56:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T08:56:20","slug":"cps-investigating-death-of-cesar-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=143888","title":{"rendered":"CPS Investigating Death of Cesar Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=142870\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-142870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/Cesar-104x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cesar\" width=\"104\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-142870\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW \u2014 Our news partner KETK has learned that CPS is investigating the death of 4-year-old Cesar Cruz. CPS officials say they investigate all child deaths.   In this case, CPS is looking into the supervision of Cesar at the time of the incident and making sure the remaining children in the home are being properly supervised. CPS says it&#8217;s also providing the family with resources for grief counseling.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle that hit and killed Cesar has been identified as Margarito Aguilar.  According to KETK, the 56-year old claims he didn&#8217;t know he had hit anything other than a mailbox or a dog. He also tells authorities he does not own a TV or radio and wasn&#8217;t aware of the situation.  Aguilar has been taken into custody and is charged with a suspended license and no insurance.  The accident occurred about 8:15 p.m. November 14.  DPS Trooper Jean Dark said the vehicle was  northbound on Texas 149 when the motorist struck Cesar, who was most likely in the road.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies were called to the boy\u2019s residence about 6:45 p.m. November 14 after family members reported him missing. Cesar\u2019s mother, Brandie Sieger, said she had left the house to take her father to the store. Her mother was at the house watching her four children when she was notified Cesar was missing. Gregg County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies, responding to reports of the missing boy, found his body in a ditch on Texas 149 near Younger Road, about a mile from where he went missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 Our news partner KETK has learned that CPS is investigating the death of 4-year-old Cesar Cruz. CPS officials say they investigate all child deaths. In this case, CPS is looking into the supervision of Cesar at the time of the incident and making sure the remaining children in the home are being properly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=143888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CPS Investigating Death of Cesar Cruz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 18:19:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143888","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143888"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144051,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143888\/revisions\/144051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}