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29-year-old Henry Cruz died after being hit by a car while walking home after a show early Saturday morning. <\/p>\n
DALLAS<\/strong> – A 29-year-old Dallas comedian was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Saturday morning, according to Dallas police.<\/p>\n Dallas Comedian Henry Cruz <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Police responded to a major crash at Elm Street and the I-345 Ramp W around 2:15 a.m. Saturday. A preliminary investigation found that a vehicle struck the man before leaving the scene. The man was transported to a local hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n The victim was identified as Henry Jose Cruz. Friends of Cruz said he was a local comedian who was walking home from a show when he was hit.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Information about the suspect or the suspect’s vehicle has not been released.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n A memorial show for Cruz will be held at Shark’s Comedy Club on Saturday, Aug. 30, at 7 p.m. to celebrate his life and raise money for his family.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article is from the Dallas Police Department, the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office, and social media posts from friends and family of the victim.<\/p>\n Downtown Dallas<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article 29-year-old Henry Cruz died after being hit by a car while walking home after a show early…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,14052,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-172388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-downtown-dallas","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115085267799588319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}