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80-year-old man found dead inside Jasper County home, sheriff's office investigating as homicide

A friend took the 80-year-old man home around 6:30 p.m. and told him to call her when he was safe inside. Deputies later found him dead.
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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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