{"id":8888,"date":"2025-10-20T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8888\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:53:14","slug":"man-found-dead-near-pa-turnpike-in-bensalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8888\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Found Dead Near PA Turnpike In Bensalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014A Philadelphia man has been found dead in a wooded area near the Pennsylvania Turnpike, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police were called to the 2100 block of Gibson Road for the report of a black man lying in the wooded area between Gibson Road and the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Glenn Vandegrift said the man was dead when police officers found him. No foul play is suspected.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the man as Jabari Akil, 78, from Paschall Avenue in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p>His family contacted the Philadelphia Police Department and reported him missing on Jan. 24, police said.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, detectives were advised that Akil was suffering from cognitive issues and had walked away from his home on previous occasions. <\/p>\n<p>Police said Akil&#8217;s family was notified of his death. <\/p>\n<p>The Bucks County Coroner\u2019s Office responded and transported him to their facility for further investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014A Philadelphia man has been found dead in a wooded area near the Pennsylvania Turnpike,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}