LUFKIN — Lufkin police are investigating a the death of a 44-year-old Hispanic man whose body was discovered Sunday morning at a picnic table behind the CVS store on Frank Avenue. Around 9 a.m. someone rode by the park area on Moore Street on a bicycle and noticed the man\u2019s body. The person on the bicycle alerted their family, who then contacted police after checking on the man, Lufkin Police Cpl. Trent Sobolewski said. \u201cWe\u2019re investigating, but it appears to be a natural death,\u201d Sobolewski said. \u201cWhen we got here he was sitting on the bench like he just fell backward against the table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LUFKIN — Lufkin police are investigating a the death of a 44-year-old Hispanic man whose body was discovered Sunday morning at a picnic table behind the CVS store on Frank Avenue. Around 9 a.m. someone rode by the park area on Moore Street on a bicycle and noticed the man\u2019s body. The person on the … Continue reading Man Found Dead in Public Area<\/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-71824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 05:03:03","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\/71824","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=71824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72065,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71824\/revisions\/72065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}