{"id":92544,"date":"2025-12-22T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92544\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:44:12","slug":"body-found-in-submerged-truck-identified-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92544\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Found In Submerged Truck Identified: St. Pete Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 The body found in a pickup truck submerged in water off 62nd Avenue Northeast on Saturday morning has been identified, St. Petersburg Police Department said. <\/p>\n<p>David Hawkins, Jr., 35, was the driver of a 2012 white Ford F-250 truck that was found in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Someone initially called police, reporting an upside-down vehicle in the water off Bayou Grande Boulevard around 7:15 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg Fire Rescue responded and found the truck\u2019s driver, later identified as Hawkins, in the water. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say that the truck went through the guard rail at the road\u2019s end and into the grassy area before continuing east and hitting trees, then going into the water. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 The body found in a pickup truck submerged in water off 62nd Avenue Northeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-92544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92544","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=92544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}