{"id":41206,"date":"2025-09-22T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/sc-state-trooper-charged-in-death-of-4-year-old-in-oconee-county\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:00:42","slug":"sc-state-trooper-charged-in-death-of-4-year-old-in-oconee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/sc-state-trooper-charged-in-death-of-4-year-old-in-oconee-county\/","title":{"rendered":"SC State Trooper Charged in Death of 4-Year-Old in Oconee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBpoAk1Ut6U?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>A South Carolina state trooper has been charged in connection with the tragic death of a 4-year-old child in Oconee County. Former trooper Joshua Latimer and Destiny Dionne are both facing two counts of unlawful neglect of a child after the child was found dead Friday morning at a home in Walhalla.<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina Department of Public Safety confirms Latimer was fired immediately after his arrest. He had only been with the agency since January. The investigation is ongoing. WSPA 7 News will continue to follow this developing story and provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information that could help authorities, please contact local law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Carolina state trooper has been charged in connection with the tragic death of a 4-year-old child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}