{"id":28421,"date":"2025-11-04T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28421\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:27:07","slug":"police-id-man-found-dead-in-catskill-creek-daily-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28421\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ID man found dead in Catskill Creek \u2013 Daily Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CATSKILL, N.Y. \u2014 State police have identified the town man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfreeman.com\/2025\/11\/03\/body-found-in-catskill-creek-police-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whose body was found floating in the Catskill Creek<\/a> in the village on Sunday, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>McKinley Smith, 32, of Catskill, was found dead in the creek at about 11:29 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of Smith\u2019s death remains under investigation and police are asking anyone with information to contact the state police at Middletown at (845) 344-5300 and reference case number NY2501090207.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers at Coxsackie recovered the body from the water, and the state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Identification Unit commenced an investigation, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATSKILL, N.Y. \u2014 State police have identified the town man whose body was found floating in the Catskill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[266,17750,85,267,9,11,10,49,51,50,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-28421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","9":"tag-greene-county","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-state-news","18":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}