HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (TNND) \u2014 The body of an American Airlines flight attendant was found along a beach in Florida last week with injuries consistent with a boat strike, according to authorities. <\/p>\n
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) told The National News Desk that 31-year-old Kellie Melinda Williams was discovered June 3 by two fishermen, who spotted her body in the surf at Hollywood Beach and called police.<\/p>\n
Hollywood Police said Williams appeared to have been snorkeling or diving when she was struck in the head by a watercraft.<\/p>\n
The incident remains under investigation. FWC investigators are asking anyone who witnessed the incident or has information to call the Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-FWCC (3922).<\/p>\n
“The FWC would like to extend its deepest sympathies to the family and loved ones of Kellie Williams during this difficult time,” officials said.<\/p>\n
American Airlines also confirmed Williams’ identity, saying it was “deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague.”<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts and support are with her family, loved ones and colleagues at this time,” the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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Williams’ parents told WTVJ that she had recently married and moved to Florida from California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (TNND) \u2014 The body of an American Airlines flight attendant was found along a beach in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-300250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300250","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=300250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}