{"id":766343,"date":"2026-07-16T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766343\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T13:43:14","slug":"updated-death-investigation-underway-breakingnews-newsalerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766343\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Death investigation underway | Breakingnews Newsalerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT CHARLOTTE\u00a0\u2014 A well-being check turned into the death investigation of two people late Wednesday, according to Charlotte County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release Thursday, two dead bodies were found in a home in the 2600 block of Rock Creek Drive just south of Murdock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Identification of the individuals could not be made due to the amount of time that had passed and resulting condition of the bodies,&#8221; the news release stated. &#8220;At this time, evidence supports that this is an isolated incident and there is no reason for concern for community safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities stated it was attempting to make positive identification. In this situation, it noted, &#8220;will take time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After that process, and with proper notification of next of kin, more information may be made, it stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any appropriate updates will be shared,&#8221; the news release stated.<\/p>\n<p>Janis Greelnlick, 80, said she didn\u2019t know the two people well, saying they had recently moved in.<\/p>\n<p>Greenlick has lived on Rock Creek for 29 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a lot goes on here,\u201d she said. &#8220;The only thing we have going on is traffic because it\u2019s a go-through street for all the other street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She frequently walks around the neighborhood and is friends with a number of neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never had anything like thus happen before,\u201d she said<\/p>\n<p>This story may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CHARLOTTE\u00a0\u2014 A well-being check turned into the death investigation of two people late Wednesday, according to Charlotte&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-766343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}