{"id":164283,"date":"2026-02-22T00:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164283\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:49:14","slug":"4-year-old-child-found-dead-in-wimauma-hcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164283\/","title":{"rendered":"4-year-old child found dead in Wimauma: HCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-21-12h49m21s841.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">WIMAUMA, Fla. &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough County<\/a> Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating the death of a 4-year-old child in Wimauma.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to HCSO, the incident happened around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, in the 2500 block of Tee Time Road. When deputies arrived, they found the child unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/venice-man-accused-chloroforming-killing-missing-woman-told-nurse-he-killed-4-others-affidavit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Venice man accused of chloroforming, killing missing woman told nurse he killed 4: Affidavit<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The child was later pronounced dead, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/vlcsnap-2026-02-21-12h49m15s227.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-97c6a84c=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HCSO confirmed deputies are back at the scene investigating Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The cause of death is under review by the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office, HCSO said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information is released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article WIMAUMA, Fla. &#8211; The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating the death of a 4-year-old child in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-164283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164283","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=164283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}