{"id":171569,"date":"2012-03-14T12:05:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=171569"},"modified":"2012-03-15T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:37:41","slug":"sheriff-to-release-details-in-teachers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=171569","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Teacher Apparently Died from Self-Inflicted Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=171570\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-171570\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/03\/dead.13315770861-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"dead.1331577086\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-171570\" \/><\/a>GILMER \u2014 Officials say it appears New Diana teacher David Gross, 37, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to a statement Wednesday from Upshur County Sheriff Anthony Betterton, \u201cBased on the evidence at the scene, as well as the preliminary autopsy report, it appears Gross died as a result of a self-inflicted wound. No additional information will be released at this time.\u201d The funeral for Gross, of Union Grove, was Tuesday morning at Norton Lovell Auditorium at New Diana High School, where Gross had taught agriculture science for more than six years. He also represented East Texas as a board member of the Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>According to KETK, Gross was pronounced dead Friday afternoon. Betterton said an autopsy was ordered from the Southwest Institute of Forensic Science in Dallas. Deputies arrived at Gross\u2019 home on a private road off Union Grove Road in response to a call received by sheriff\u2019s dispatch about 2:40 Friday. Betterton requested that the Texas Rangers and Gregg County sheriff\u2019s officials conduct the investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILMER \u2014 Officials say it appears New Diana teacher David Gross, 37, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to a statement Wednesday from Upshur County Sheriff Anthony Betterton, \u201cBased on the evidence at the scene, as well as the preliminary autopsy report, it appears Gross died as a result of a self-inflicted wound. No &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=171569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officials: Teacher Apparently Died from Self-Inflicted Wound<\/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-171569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 14:28:38","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\/171569","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=171569"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171989,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171569\/revisions\/171989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}