{"id":396637,"date":"2026-09-11T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396637\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:06:08","slug":"witness-says-he-ran-to-help-after-hearing-the-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396637\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness says he ran to help after hearing the strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CELEBRATION, Fla. (WESH) \u2013 A 20-year-old man was allegedly killed by a lightning strike while on a walking path near downtown Celebration, Florida, on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAs soon as I heard that, I started running and I came over here. That\u2019s when I saw the man. I had a feeling that it wasn\u2019t good,\u201d witness Felipe Costa said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The victim was identified as Matthew Jenkins of Michigan. His father said Jenkins had recently moved to central Florida to begin the Disney college program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI have so much more respect for what storms are capable of, what nature is capable of, and we got to learn how to respect that and know how to deal with it,\u201d Costa said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Osceola County Sheriff\u2019s Office is awaiting the medical examiner\u2019s determination of the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WESH via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CELEBRATION, Fla. (WESH) \u2013 A 20-year-old man was allegedly killed by a lightning strike while on a walking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[168,158117,4403,6859,28,30,29,65378,9662,158118,52868,7642,139,221],"class_list":["post-396637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-celebration","tag-celebration-florida-lightning-strike","tag-college","tag-disney","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jenkins","tag-lightning","tag-lightning-strike-florida-walking-path","tag-matthew","tag-michigan","tag-orlando","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396637","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=396637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}