Benjamin Goff

Benjamin David Goff (July 12, 1979 – June 25, 2021) was a longtime resident of St. Petersburg, Florida. Public records and official notice from the St. Petersburg Police Department identify him by his full name and date of birth; those records place him in the neighborhood around the city’s central corridor where he lived at the time of his death.

While few public accounts delve into personal details about Benjamin’s day-to-day life, official sources make clear he was known in his community as an adult who lived and moved about St. Petersburg. Like many who call this city home, his life was shaped by ordinary routines and local connections that do not always appear in public records but were nevertheless meaningful to family, friends, and neighbors.

Benjamin’s death on June 25, 2021, was reported by local law enforcement and covered by regional news outlets. The circumstances of his passing drew attention from the community and authorities; those facts are part of the public record but do not define the whole of his life. What remains important is that he was a real person with a life in a real place—St. Petersburg—and that his loss was felt by people who knew him.

Because there is no published, family-authorized obituary that matches his name and the exact date of death in the public obituary archives examined, details about relationships, occupations, hobbies, and surviving family members are not available from reliable sources. This remembrance honors Benjamin by recording the verified facts we can confirm and by acknowledging the limits of the public record: he was more than the circumstances of his death. Those who loved him will hold his memory in the small, private ways that public documents cannot capture.