{"id":411443,"date":"2026-09-26T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411443\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:20:07","slug":"city-of-tampa-to-honor-fallen-police-officer-who-died-77-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/411443\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Tampa to honor fallen police officer who died 77 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 26, 2026 &#8211; Officer Morris Lopez was killed 77 years ago protecting a newspaper boy who was in the line of fire of criminals. The City of Tampa will unveil an honorary street sign with Officer Lopez\u2019s name Monday, Sept. 28 at Centennial Park in Ybor City. Due to the limited forensic technology of the era, the suspects were never identified. A ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. at the corner of 9th Street and 1800 E. 8th Avenue. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampa.gov\/news\/2026-09\/city-leaders-honor-fallen-tpd-officer-who-was-killed-77-years-ago-195576\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link<\/a>.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 26, 2026 &#8211; Officer Morris Lopez was killed 77 years ago protecting a newspaper boy who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-411443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411443","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=411443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}