{"id":227133,"date":"2026-04-11T02:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:12:06","slug":"man-found-dead-in-downtown-tampa-person-of-interest-detained-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227133\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in downtown Tampa, person of interest detained: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; One person was detained and police are investigating a homicide after a man was found dead Friday afternoon in downtown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to the Tampa Police Department, officers responded shortly before 4 p.m. to the 800 block of East Zack Street, following a report of an unresponsive person.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">When officers arrived, they found an adult man suffering from injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police say one person of interest was detained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Investigators are working to determine that person\u2019s involvement and the circumstances surrounding the man\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Police have not released the identity of the victim or the person detained.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The investigation remains active, and police say more information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Anyone with information is encouraged to contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestopperstb.com\/sitemenu.aspx?ID=155&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay<\/a> to submit a tip anonymously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; One person was detained and police are investigating a homicide after a man was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-227133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","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\/227133","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=227133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}