{"id":299452,"date":"2014-05-02T11:50:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=299452"},"modified":"2014-05-05T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:22:40","slug":"man-found-in-rusk-ditch-flown-to-tyler-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=299452","title":{"rendered":"Death of Man Found in Ditch Being Investigated as Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/xavierlang.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/xavierlang-150x150.png\" alt=\"xavierlang\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-299547\" \/><\/a>RUSK \u2014 The death of a man found in a Cherokee County ditch is now being investigated as a homicide. KETK reports that according to the Rusk Police Department, officers were dispatched to the 400 block of Underwood around 8:40 Tuesday evening on a call for help. When police arrived they found Xavier Lang, 22, lying in an eastbound ditch with arm and head injuries. He was pronounced dead Wednesday by Smith County Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace James Meredith after being flown to a Tyler hospital.  Lang\u2019s body has been sent to Dallas for autopsy, and the results are expected to be back sometime this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSK \u2014 The death of a man found in a Cherokee County ditch is now being investigated as a homicide. KETK reports that according to the Rusk Police Department, officers were dispatched to the 400 block of Underwood around 8:40 Tuesday evening on a call for help. When police arrived they found Xavier Lang, 22, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=299452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death of Man Found in Ditch Being Investigated as Homicide<\/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-299452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 22:42:32","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\/299452","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=299452"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299676,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299452\/revisions\/299676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}