JASPER COUNTY, Texas — The Jasper County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a man in his 80s was found dead at his home Friday night.
The case is being investigated as a homicide, Jasper County Sheriff Mitch Newman said.
One of his friends took the man home around 6:30 p.m. and told him to call her when he was inside to make sure he made it safely, Newman said.
"She started calling him around 7 p.m.," he said. "When he didn't answer the phone, she started calling us."
Jasper County Sheriff's Deputies went to the home on Olen Street in the Craig addition just south of Jasper about 8:15 p.m. and found him dead inside, Newman said.
"It shocked everybody," he said.
Jasper County Sheriff's Office identified the man as Guadalupe Naranjo, 80.
Jasper County Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Raymond Hopson pronounced him dead and ordered an autopsy in Beaumont, Newman said.
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