{"id":69166,"date":"2024-04-22T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-investgate-death-of-man-found-near-railroad-tracks\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:58:10","slug":"kent-police-investgate-death-of-man-found-near-railroad-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-investgate-death-of-man-found-near-railroad-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police investigate death of man found near railroad tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Police are investigating the death of a man found <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/dqVAMHdYgVKRjYdt5\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">in the 1000 block of First Avenue North<\/a> near the BNSF Railway tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Officers and Puget Sound Fire personnel were dispatched at about 2:49 p.m. Sunday, April 21 after a 911 caller reported finding a deceased person, according to an April 22 Kent Police news release.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, first responders found a dead man near the tracks. Puget Sound Fire firefighters said that their initial opinion was that the man had been dead for at least a day. No personal effects or ID were located at the scene. As of Monday morning, April 22, the man remain unidentified.<\/p>\n<p>Officers contacted people living near the scene, but they had not witnessed anything suspicious and did not know the man. The man was 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighed 130 to 150 pounds and had black hair, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office responded to the scene and will be investigating the cause of death, to include if the injuries sustained were caused by a passing train. Kent Police will continue to investigate the circumstances that preceded the man&rsquo;s death.<\/p>\n<p>If you have information or tips about this death, please contact the Kent Police tip line at 253-856-5808 or email KPDTips@kentwa.gov. Refer to case number 24-5566.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found Sunday afternoon, April 21 in the 1000 block of First Avenue North <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":69167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-69166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69166"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=69166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}