{"id":227989,"date":"2026-04-11T22:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227989\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:38:18","slug":"murder-charge-after-man-found-dead-on-east-zack-street-in-tampa-tpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227989\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder charge after man found dead on East Zack Street in Tampa: TPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Police Department (TPD) said it has arrested a suspect in connection with a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p>TPD announced on April 11 that 41-year-old Diego Ponce-Molina has been charged with first-degree murder (with a weapon) after a man\u2019s body was found in the 800 block of East Zack Street.<\/p>\n<p>TPD said officers responded to the 800 block of East Zack Street just before 4 p.m. on April 10 for reports of an unresponsive individual.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found an adult male with injuries, and he was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>TPD said officers detained Ponce-Molina who was still on the scene when officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives claim Ponce-Molina approached and assaulted the man &#8220;without any apparent interaction or confrontation,&#8221; per TPD&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>The man killed has yet to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JADA.WILLIAMS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Multiple Hillsborough County schools are closing down in 2027<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay 28 reporter Jada Williams has the latest on how Hillsborough County Public Schools is planning major student reassignments and school closures for the 2027-28 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Hillsborough County schools are closing down in 2027; parents aren&#8217;t on board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Police Department (TPD) said it has arrested a suspect in connection with a homicide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,54496,102647,276,1109,667,102648,135,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-227989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-deceased","tag-diego-ponce-molina","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-homicide","tag-investigation","tag-man-deceased","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227989","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=227989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}