{"id":804902,"date":"2026-08-06T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804902\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:06:14","slug":"police-investigating-suspicious-death-of-21-year-old-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804902\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating suspicious death of 21-year-old in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Police say they are investigating the suspicious death of a 21-year-old in Portland.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they responded to the southbound side of I-295 near Exit 8 and the walking path adjacent to Tukey\u2019s Bridge for a report of an injured person around 9:45 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they reportedly found a 21-year-old lying in the breakdown lane of I-295 adjacent to the walking path.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Police say the I-295 south on-ramp at Washington Avenue and Bates Street in Portland will likely be closed until mid-morning on Thursday. (WGME)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2918acea-6e44-4341-b121-9786cd3b030e-andrewaccidentfeed_frame_90729.jpeg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police say the I-295 south on-ramp at Washington Avenue and Bates Street in Portland will likely be closed until mid-morning on Thursday. (WGME)<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Maine Medical Center, where they later died. The victim\u2019s name has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday. The official cause and manner of death will be determined by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, a suspect has been taken into custody and there is no danger to the public. Police have not released the name of the suspect or what charges they may be facing.<\/p>\n<p>Police say no further details will be released at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) &#8212; Police say they are investigating the suspicious death of a 21-year-old in Portland. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-804902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804902","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=804902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}