{"id":68224,"date":"2025-12-02T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/68224\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:31:07","slug":"man-51-identified-as-victim-found-inside-burned-st-lucie-county-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/68224\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 51, identified as victim found inside burned St. Lucie County home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 On Monday, WPTV learned the identity of the man <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/homicide-investigation-launched-after-body-found-in-fire-damaged-st-lucie-county-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found dead inside a St. Lucie County home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same home where fire crews responded to a call for a house fire. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Co-worker says Daniels was like family to staff <\/p>\n<p>Man found dead in St. Lucie County home identified<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office (SLCSO) said they found the body of 51-year-old Antwan Daniels inside a bedroom with blunt trauma to the head.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Daniels may have had contact with the suspect\u2014that led to an altercation.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives believe the suspect was the one who started the fire. <\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Richard Del Toro told WPTV they\u2019re working on leads to find a person of interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just takes a long time, I know it&#8217;s very frustrating sometimes for the families. And believe me, we&#8217;re in a day and age where we want everything right now, very fast,\u201d said Sheriff Del Toro. \u201cBut we have to do it the right way, and I\u2019m pretty sure we&#8217;re doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WPTV learned Daniels worked at QXO, right down the street from his home.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Watkins, a co-worker, said Daniels worked there for eight years and was like family to staff. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe brought the joy into this office every day,\u201d said Watkins. \u201cHe came in here with a smile on his face. He was just a good person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 On Monday, WPTV learned the identity of the man found dead inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1109,2735,171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-68224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-homicide","9":"tag-house-fire","10":"tag-port-st-lucie","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","12":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68224","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=68224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}