{"id":396211,"date":"2026-09-10T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396211\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:12:11","slug":"fort-pierce-police-investigating-death-of-unidentified-man-found-near-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396211\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce police investigating death of unidentified man found near business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fort Pierce police are investigating the death of an unidentified man who was found lying in the grass near a business on Okeechobee Road Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers said they responded to the 7000 block of Okeechobee Road shortly before 7 a.m. after receiving reports of an unresponsive man lying in the grass near a business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">St. Lucie County Fire Rescue also responded to the incident and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to police, a witness told investigators they had seen the man lying in the same area the night before but believed he was sleeping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detectives said they found no obvious signs of foul play and the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will determine the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detectives said they are working to identify the man and the investigation remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce police are investigating the death of an unidentified man who was found lying in the grass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-396211","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\/396211","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=396211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}