{"id":87789,"date":"2025-12-09T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87789\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:41:16","slug":"suspicious-death-of-infant-sparks-homicide-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87789\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious death of infant sparks homicide investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SDPD-Patch.webp?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765298476_165_SDPD-Patch.webp\" alt=\"Crime scene\" class=\"wp-image-325548\"  \/><\/a>A close-up photo of a San Diego Police officer. (File photo courtesy of the San Diego Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>The death of an infant inside a portable restroom in Mission Bay has prompted an investigation by homicide detectives.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police Department<\/a> said they responded shortly after 1:25 p.m. Monday to the 1600 block of West Mission Bay Drive after receiving reports from an employee removing waste from a portable restroom who discovered an unresponsive infant boy inside.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and lifeguards also responded to the scene to assist with medical treatment, but determined the child was dead at the scene a short time later, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives were notified of the suspicious circumstances involving the child\u2019s death and immediately began an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the child and the parents were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the suspicious death is asked to call SDPD\u2019s Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdcrimestoppers.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (888) 580-8477.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close-up photo of a San Diego Police officer. (File photo courtesy of the San Diego Police Department)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49093,1103,74,76,75,49094,16463],"class_list":{"0":"post-87789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-infant-death","9":"tag-mission-bay","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-suspected-homicide","14":"tag-suspicious-death"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}