{"id":424823,"date":"2026-10-11T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424823\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T11:50:12","slug":"death-investigation-underway-at-charlotte-county-pool-charlotte-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424823\/","title":{"rendered":"Death investigation underway at Charlotte County pool | Charlotte County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Major Crimes Unit is investigating a death reported Friday afternoon at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottecountyfl.gov\/departments\/community-services\/recreation-pools\/pools\/centennial-park-pool.stml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Centennial Park pool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to the location Friday, but authorities have not released details about the circumstances surrounding the death.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to WINK News on Saturday, Sgt. Richard Kaufman Jr. confirmed that the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an ongoing investigation still and the Major Crimes Unit is handling the case currently,&#8221; Kaufman said.<\/p>\n<p>Kaufman also said there is no danger to anyone else and that additional information cannot be released at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office has not disclosed the identity of the deceased or the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. WINK News will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Major Crimes Unit is investigating a death reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,167270,4250],"class_list":["post-424823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-centennial","tag-charlotte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424823","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=424823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}