{"id":106344,"date":"2024-07-11T00:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/missing-pastor-found-dead-in-submerged-car-after-a-week\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T00:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:05:46","slug":"missing-pastor-found-dead-in-submerged-car-after-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/missing-pastor-found-dead-in-submerged-car-after-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing pastor found dead in submerged car after a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-10\/ABC_DeadPastor_071024.png\" alt><figcaption>ABC News\/WLS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(CHICAGO) &#8212; A missing pastor was found dead in his car in the Des Plaines River, near Chicago, Tuesday night after he had been missing for a week, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Beard, 53, was last heard from on July 2 and was last seen in Joliet, Illinois, according to the Chicago Police Department. Beard was the assistant pastor at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage from July 2 shows Beard&#8217;s vehicle going through a gate and under a raised drawbridge before crashing into the river, Rockdale officials said at a press conference Tuesday. The vehicle was located underwater using sonar.<\/p>\n<p>The road where the vehicle was seen was closed, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Beard was found in the Des Plaines River approximately 150 yards west of Brandon Road in Rockdale, according to the Will County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy to determine the final cause and manner is scheduled for Wednesday, but the results have not yet been publicly released.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was the greatest person, one of the greatest men I&#8217;ve ever met in my life, and this is painful,&#8221; New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Chenier Alston told Chicago ABC station WLS. &#8220;We want answers. Words can&#8217;t even begin to describe how we feel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Illinois State Police is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News\/WLS (CHICAGO) &#8212; A missing pastor was found dead in his car in the Des Plaines River, near Chicago, Tuesday night after he had been missing for a week, according to officials. Warren Beard, 53, was last heard from on July 2 and was last seen in Joliet, Illinois,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/missing-pastor-found-dead-in-submerged-car-after-a-week\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}