{"id":430674,"date":"2026-10-17T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430674\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T19:14:09","slug":"5-year-old-boy-reported-missing-in-riverview-found-deceased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430674\/","title":{"rendered":"5-YEAR-OLD BOY REPORTED MISSING IN RIVERVIEW FOUND DECEASED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9f2d07fe-4400-4516-85fc-88f9f4bb5d4e.jpg\" alt=\"5-YEAR-OLD BOY REPORTED MISSING IN RIVERVIEW FOUND DECEASED\" class=\"pr-3 pb-3\" aria-label=\"5-YEAR-OLD BOY REPORTED MISSING IN RIVERVIEW FOUND DECEASED\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office is deeply saddened to announce that a 5-year-old boy reported missing this morning is deceased.<\/p>\n<p>At 9 a.m., the child\u2019s parents called 911 to report that their son, who has autism, was missing from their home in the 7200 block of Grand Elm Drive in Riverview.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies arrived at 9:11 a.m. and immediately began searching the neighborhood, along with the HCSO K-9 Unit. At 9:20 a.m., a deputy found the child in a retention pond in the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deputies pulled him from the water and began CPR until Hillsborough County Fire Rescue arrived. The child was transported to AdventHealth, where he was pronounced deceased.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing a child is a pain no family should ever know,&#8221;\u00a0said Sheriff Chad Chronister.\u00a0\u201cI commend our deputies\u2019 quick response and their attempts to save the child\u2019s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is an active investigation. Any updates will come from the Public Affairs Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office is deeply saddened to announce that a 5-year-old boy reported missing this morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-430674","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\/430674","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=430674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}