{"id":412496,"date":"2026-09-28T03:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412496\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T03:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:58:14","slug":"inmate-death-at-orient-road-jail-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412496\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate death at Orient Road Jail under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of a 27-year-old inmate who was found unresponsive at the Orient Road Jail last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said Liam Thomas was discovered by staff at the jail on Sept. 21 and was taken to Tampa General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He remained hospitalized for nearly six days before he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said Thomas\u2019 injuries preliminarily appear to be self-inflicted, but the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will determine the official cause of death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said its Public Affairs Office will release additional information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the death of a 27-year-old inmate who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163520,163519,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-412496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-death-of-inmate","tag-orient-road-jail","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412496","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=412496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}