{"id":84448,"date":"2025-12-15T22:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/84448\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:14:34","slug":"tampa-police-seek-leads-after-man-found-dead-in-ybor-city-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/84448\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police seek leads after man found dead in Ybor City lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tampa police are looking for tips after a man was found dead in an empty lot in Ybor City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shortly after 11 a.m. Friday, officers were called to the 2700 block of 18th Avenue East, where they found James McClendon Jr. dead, the Tampa Police Department said in a news release. McClendon, 34, had signs of upper body trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cInvestigators are urging anyone in the community who may have seen or heard anything to come forward,\u201c the news release states. \u201dEven the smallest detail could be critical in helping bring answers to the McClendon family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information can call 813-231-6130 or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay at 800-873-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa police are looking for tips after a man was found dead in an empty lot in Ybor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13024,15467,46457,135,137,136,9822,10364],"class_list":["post-84448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-empty-lot","tag-friday-morning","tag-james-mcclendon-jr","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police","tag-ybor-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448","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=84448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}