A 57-year-old West Palm Beach man who died after being found naked in Sebastian Inlet State Park once worked as a director for WPBF Channel 25 news, a former co-worker said Tuesday.

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Peter Robinson was a happy go-lucky man who "was always smiling," said Jim Sitton, now a special project photographer at The Post’s news partner, WPTV NewsChannel 5.

"He was a Jamaican man with a beautiful spirit," said Sitton. "Out of all the people I know, he would have been the last person to go out like this."

Robinson died at a hospital on Saturday while in custody with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. Officers found him incoherent and naked in the water at the park, along State Road A1A at the border of Indian River and Brevard counties.

A spokeswoman with the sheriff’s office said Robinson seemed to be under the influence of an undetermined substance. His death is still under investigation.

Before detained by Brevard County officers, Robinson fled Indian River County police after running a red light at an intersection and swerving on and off the road, according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office’s police report.

Sitton said he met Robinson at WPBF where they became friends. He loved his field of work and was promoted to director after working for the station’s audio production, Sitton said.

"He hired me to shoot his friend’s Jamaican wedding years ago," Sitton said. "I remember his Jamaican accent, always saying, ‘Yeah, mon.’"

WPBF declined to comment and said they do not make remarks on previous employees. On his public LinkedIn profile page, Robinson wrote that he worked with the company from November 1988 to March 2011.