{"id":1514728,"date":"2026-06-11T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1514728"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:09:00","slug":"investigation-underway-in-drowning-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1514728","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway in drowning incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LONGVIEW \u2013 An investigation has been launched after one person was discovered to have drowned at Lake Cherokee on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Elderville-Lakeport Fire Department and our news partner KETK, firefighters were dispatched to the north side of Lake Cherokee at around 12:40 p.m. after receiving reports of a missing person.<\/p>\n

Once on the scene, firefighters began searching the area and it was reported that the missing individual was last seen on a boat dock 45 minutes prior to when emergency personnel arrived at the lake. The individual was later discovered to be dead in the water, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n

The Gregg County Sheriff\u2019s Office has launched an investigation following the death and any further information regarding the incident will be released when deemed appropriate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this time, the Elderville-Lakeport Fire Department would like to extend its sincere condolences to the family and loved ones affected by this tragic incident,\u201d the fire department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONGVIEW \u2013 An investigation has been launched after one person was discovered to have drowned at Lake Cherokee on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Elderville-Lakeport Fire Department and our news partner KETK, firefighters were dispatched to the north side of Lake Cherokee at around 12:40 p.m. after receiving reports of a missing person. Once on … Continue reading Investigation underway in drowning incident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1511494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 05:52:06","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\/1514728","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514729,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514728\/revisions\/1514729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}