{"id":421869,"date":"2026-10-08T03:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421869\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T03:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:23:32","slug":"woman-found-dead-at-tampa-apartment-after-child-flags-for-help-hcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421869\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead at Tampa apartment after child flags for help: HCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/resized-hcso-death-investigation-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-47e62d5a=\"\">Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Hillsborough County deputies are conducting a death investigation after a child reported finding their mother dead at a Tampa home Wednesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Tampa death investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Deputies responded to a home on the 12200 block of North 16th Street after receiving a 911 call at 11:38 a.m. The caller reported a child was outside stating their mother was dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Hillsborough County Fire Rescue arrived at the scene and pronounced the woman dead. The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating the circumstances surrounding her death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Unanswered questions <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Authorities have not released the identity of the woman or the child.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Investigators have not stated the woman&#8217;s cause of death or whether foul play is suspected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from official press releases and dispatch records provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Hillsborough County deputies are conducting a death investigation after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-421869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421869","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=421869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}