{"id":308873,"date":"2014-07-30T11:04:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=308873"},"modified":"2014-07-31T07:33:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T12:33:03","slug":"body-found-in-gregg-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=308873","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Continue to Investigate Longview Man&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/Gregg-County-Sheriffs-Office-patch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/Gregg-County-Sheriffs-Office-patch.jpg\" alt=\"Gregg County Sheriffs Office patch\" width=\"118\" height=\"118\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-308874\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2013 Gregg County deputies are continuing to investigate the death of a Longview man. According to KETK, preliminary autopsy results ruled out foul play as a factor in the death of Donald Merrills, 40.  His body was found just after 6:00 Monday evening outside a residence on Rebecca Circle near his home. The Sheriff\u2019s Department says Merrills is known to have had mental issues. He was found wearing multiple layers of clothing and a fleece lined coat. Toxicology results are pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2013 Gregg County deputies are continuing to investigate the death of a Longview man. According to KETK, preliminary autopsy results ruled out foul play as a factor in the death of Donald Merrills, 40. His body was found just after 6:00 Monday evening outside a residence on Rebecca Circle near his home. The Sheriff\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=308873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Authorities Continue to Investigate Longview Man&#8217;s Death<\/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-308873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 18:37:32","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\/308873","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=308873"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309081,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308873\/revisions\/309081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}