{"id":339031,"date":"2026-06-16T22:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339031\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:59:12","slug":"breaking-indiana-dnr-identifies-body-in-st-joseph-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/339031\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Indiana DNR identifies body in St. Joseph River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 A body found in the St. Joseph River has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Raul Hernandez, 36, of Fort Worth Texas was identified as the man in the river, according to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p>South Bend Firefighters recovered the remains from the St. Joseph River on June 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsbt.com\/news\/local\/body-found-in-st-joseph-river-near-leeper-park-south-bend-police-investigation-fire-department-recovery-riverside-drive-memorial-hospital-st-joseph-county-indiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Body found in St. Joseph River near Leeper Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was found near the 700 block of Riverside Drive, south of Leeper Park.<\/p>\n<p>The South Bend Fire Department said they sent out a rescue boat but the water was too shallow to access the body. Firefighters were able to recover the body and bring him to shore.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana DNR is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The exact cause of death is pending toxicology reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 A body found in the St. Joseph River has been identified. Raul Hernandez,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-339031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}