{"id":131449,"date":"2026-01-25T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:40:08","slug":"victim-passes-away-after-orlando-battery-incident-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/131449\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim passes away after Orlando battery incident in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bernard Jackson, known as \u201cBJ,\u201d has died from his injuries, prompting the Orlando Police Department to investigate the case as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The police report states that the incident took place on December 26, 2025, when Jackson was discovered injured near West Anderson Street. He was last seen around 3:30 a.m. and was known to often visit the South Paramore area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities have announced a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Orlando Police Department is actively seeking information regarding the incident. They previously asked for the public\u2019s assistance in identifying the suspect or suspects involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tips can be reported by calling Crimeline at 800-423-8477 or through their website at http:\/\/crimeline.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernard Jackson, known as \u201cBJ,\u201d has died from his injuries, prompting the Orlando Police Department to investigate the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[61696,139,141,140,8416],"class_list":["post-131449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-bernard-jackson","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}