{"id":289840,"date":"2026-05-30T05:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289840\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:37:33","slug":"death-investigation-underway-after-child-dies-in-miami-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289840\/","title":{"rendered":"Death investigation underway after child dies in Miami County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff&#8217;s deputies and medics responded to a report of an unresponsive child around 6:30 a.m. Thursday, May 28 in the 400 block of South Elm Street in Bunker Hill.<\/p>\n<p>BUNKER HILL, Ind. \u2014 A death investigation is underway after a child was found dead Thursday morning in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Miami County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Miami County sheriff&#8217;s deputies and medics responded to a report of an unresponsive child around 6:30 a.m. May 28 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/400+S+Elm+St,+Bunker+Hill,+IN+46914\/@40.6535325,-86.1061438,1649m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88147b57a73909a9:0x772a54eeb9e5f0cc!8m2!3d40.6534486!4d-86.1023005!5m1!1e1?entry=tts&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUyNi4wIPu8ASoASAFQAw%253D%253D&amp;skid=5f4b4bcd-9981-4568-9418-916b3c4b9e61\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">400 block of South Elm Street<\/a>, near South Railroad Street and West 800 South, in Bunker Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Despite lifesaving efforts, first responders were unable to revive the child.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Criminal Investigations Division, along with the Miami County Coroner&#8217;s Office, are conducting a death investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since this is an active investigation, no other details will be released at this time,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office wrote in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The Bunker Hill Town Marshal&#8217;s Office, Pipe Creek Fire Department, Parkview EMS and Indiana State Police also assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Bunker Hill is approximately 75 miles north of downtown Indianapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheriff&#8217;s deputies and medics responded to a report of an unresponsive child around 6:30 a.m. Thursday, May 28&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-289840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289840","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=289840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}