{"id":22294,"date":"2025-11-05T06:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=22294"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:18:33","slug":"shumway-man-found-dead-no-foul-play-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/22294-shumway-man-found-dead-no-foul-play-suspected\/","title":{"rendered":"Shumway Man Found Dead; No Foul Play Suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Shortly after 7am Tuesday, the Effingham County Sheriff\u2019s Department was advised by an employee of the Effingham City Water Department that an employee did not report for his night shift on Sunday. He requested a Sheriff\u2019s Deputy accompany him to the individual\u2019s residence in Shumway for a welfare check. Upon arrival, the officers made entry and found the individual deceased in the residence. He was identified as Derrick Helmbacher, age 52 of Shumway.<\/p>\n<p>The Coroner\u2019s Office was notified and responded to the scene. Preliminary investigation revealed no foul play. Toxicology samples were obtained by the Coroner\u2019s Office. Medical records were requested from his primary physician and prescription pills were secured by the Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The death remains under investigation by the Effingham County Coroner\u2019s Office and the Effingham County Sheriff\u2019s Department. An Effingham City Police Detective also responded to the scene as he was the closest car when the incident was dispatched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after 7am Tuesday, the Effingham County Sheriff\u2019s Department was advised by an employee of the Effingham City Water Department that an employee did not report for his night shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shumway Man Found Dead; No Foul Play Suspected - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/22294-shumway-man-found-dead-no-foul-play-suspected\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shumway Man Found Dead; 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