PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 Port St. Lucie Police is investigating the death of a 77-year-old man whose body was found in a pond in the 1400 block of Southwest Mockingbird Drive, Port St. Lucie on Aug. 7<\/p>\n
Officers responded to the home of Michael Joseph Kramer at that address at about 1:18 p.m., in reference to a missing adult, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
During the investigation, officers learned Kramer was last seen by his wife inside their home at about 10 p.m., Aug. 6. When she awoke at about 7 a.m., the following morning, Kramer was no longer in the home, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
Kramer\u2019s personal belongings, including his shoes, wallet, and cellphone, were inside the home. In her search, his wife contacted local hospitals before contacting law enforcement at approximately 1:18 p.m. to report him missing.<\/p>\n
Officers began searching the surrounding neighborhood and, during the canvass, found an unresponsive person in a pond directly across the street from the residence at about 2 p.m. The individual and clothing matched the description provided for Kramer, according to police reports.<\/p>\n
The police dive team responded to the scene and recovered Kramer from the water near the shoreline of the pond. He was subsequently confirmed as dead.<\/p>\n
At this time, the circumstances surrounding his death remain under investigation. There are no known indications of foul play at this preliminary stage of the investigation.<\/p>\n
More information will be released as it becomes available and appropriate.<\/p>\n
The police department encourages the public to contact law enforcement promptly when a person is believed to be missing. \u201cTimely reporting allows officers to begin investigative and search efforts as quickly as possible,\u201d the department said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 Port St. Lucie Police is investigating the death of a 77-year-old man whose body…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-365850","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","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365850","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=365850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}