{"id":50633,"date":"2014-04-16T23:55:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T06:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=50633"},"modified":"2014-04-21T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T01:44:27","slug":"popular-local-businessman-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/04\/16\/popular-local-businessman-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Local businessman found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50634\" style=\"width: 672px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Paul-Porteus-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50634\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Paul-Porteus-2.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Porteus was known and loved throughout the local business community.\" width=\"672\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Paul-Porteus-2.jpg 672w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Paul-Porteus-2-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Porteus was known and loved throughout the local business community.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LANCASTER \u2013 A popular local businessman was found dead at the side of the road Tuesday night, apparently due to a heart attack, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Porteus<\/strong>, 52, of Lancaster was discovered around 10:18 p.m., April 15 near a vehicle at the vista point on State Route 14, one mile south of Avenue S, according to Assistant Chief Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was outside of the car, he wasn&#8217;t involved in a collision and there was no trauma or foul play,\u201d Winter said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know if he was pulled over and then had a heart attack, so that case is under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Family members grew worried when Porteus didn&#8217;t make it home from the bowling alley Tuesday evening, a friend said. They received the grim news early Wednesday morning, the friend said.<\/p>\n<p>Porteus, the manager and senior loan officer at Prospect Mortgage, was popular throughout the local business community and heavily involved in the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce. The 1980 Palmdale High School graduate could often be seen at the A.M. Caf\u00e9 in Lancaster striking conversations with diners.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy will determine Porteus\u2019 exact cause of death, Winter said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER \u2013 A popular local businessman was found dead at the side of the road Tuesday night, apparently due to a heart attack, authorities said. Paul Porteus, 52, of Lancaster was discovered around 10:18 p.m., April 15 near a vehicle at the vista point on State Route 14, one mile south of Avenue S, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}