{"id":178333,"date":"2026-03-04T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178333\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:35:06","slug":"hillsborough-county-sheriffs-office-investigates-death-of-4-year-old-in-wimauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/178333\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigates death of 4-year-old in Wimauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WIMAUMA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of a 4-year-old child after the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office ruled the manner of death a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies responded at about 3:30 p.m. Feb. 20 to the 2500 block of Tee Time Road, the sheriff\u2019s office said. When deputies arrived, they found a child suffering from upper body trauma that resulted in death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/02\/21\/deputies-investigate-death-4-year-old\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/02\/21\/deputies-investigate-death-4-year-old\/\">ORIGINAL COVERAGE | Deputies investigate death of 4-year-old<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis is a heartbreaking case, and our detectives are working tirelessly to determine the events that led to this tragedy,\u201d Sheriff Chad Chronister said. \u201cWe are committed to uncovering the truth and ensuring anyone responsible is held fully accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation remains active. The sheriff\u2019s office said any updates will be provided by its Public Affairs Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WIMAUMA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of a 4-year-old child after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13580,84370,18311,135,137,136,84371,84369],"class_list":["post-178333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-chad-chronister","tag-hillsborough-county-homicide","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriffs-office","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tee-time-road-wimauma","tag-wimauma-child-death-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178333","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=178333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}