{"id":2507,"date":"2025-10-14T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2507\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:16:15","slug":"non-verbal-13-year-olds-body-found-in-port-st-lucie-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2507\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-verbal 13-year-old&#8217;s body found in Port St. Lucie lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A missing non-verbal 13-year-old&#8217;s body was pulled from a lake in Port St. Lucie on Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p>According to Port St. Lucie Police Chief Leo Niemczyk, Roger Rivera&#8217;s body was recovered just before 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Missing teen&#8217;s body pulled from lake<\/p>\n<p>He was first reported missing Sunday afternoon after last being seen at the 11000 block of SW Macelli Way around 2 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>Rivera was playing in the backyard with his mother in the Central Park community when he suddenly ran off, according to Niemczyk. <\/p>\n<p>The mother tried to catch him, but she could not catch up with him. <\/p>\n<p>His iPad was found near a body of water, not far from their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A missing non-verbal 13-year-old&#8217;s body was pulled from a lake in Port St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-2507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","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=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}