ALBA \u2014 Wood County officials said the circumstances surrounding the death of a 16-year-old boy were suspicious. Loren Saunders was found about last Wednesday morning around 1:30 with a single gunshot wound to the chest at Chaney Point RV Park on County Road 1590 in Wood County. Sheriff\u2019s deputies were dispatched to the residence after Saunders\u2019 father reported his son had been shot, and he was doing CPR on him, officials said. <\/p>\n
The case was turned over to the Wood County District Attorney\u2019s Office for further investigation after the medical examiner\u2019s office said evidence didn\u2019t add up to the death being considered accidental. At the time, investigator William Burge said Saunders\u2019 cause of death was ruled accidental, because Saunders\u2019 father told authorities he caught him playing with the .22 caliber handgun at their home in Alba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ALBA \u2014 Wood County officials said the circumstances surrounding the death of a 16-year-old boy were suspicious. Loren Saunders was found about last Wednesday morning around 1:30 with a single gunshot wound to the chest at Chaney Point RV Park on County Road 1590 in Wood County. Sheriff\u2019s deputies were dispatched to the residence after … Continue reading Teen’s Death Under Investigation<\/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-97145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 21:11:42","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\/97145","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=97145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97447,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97145\/revisions\/97447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}