{"id":359020,"date":"2026-07-31T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359020\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:50:09","slug":"officer-resigns-after-allegations-he-left-scene-of-car-where-man-later-died-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359020\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer resigns after allegations he left scene of car where man later died by suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Port St. Lucie officer resigns after allegations he left scene of car where man later died by suicide<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785516609_939_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A Port St. Lucie police officer resigned in April following allegations of neglect during a March incident at the Treasure Coast Church of God Worship Center on Savona Boulevard, according to an internal affairs report.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The report alleged Officer Mathew Brown came across a car with a man inside, looked, and then immediately left the scene.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Fifteen minutes later, another officer spotted the same car and discovered the man inside had died by suicide.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Officer Brown arrived as backup but allegedly did not inform anyone about his earlier encounter with the vehicle and later claimed he did not see anything.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie officer resigns after allegations he left scene of car where man later died by suicide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-359020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359020","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=359020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}