{"id":242899,"date":"2025-09-21T02:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242899\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:44:11","slug":"man-dies-after-being-hit-by-train-near-downtown-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242899\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being hit by train near downtown Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; A man was found dead early Saturday morning following an apparent train collision near downtown Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">At around 2 a.m. on Sept. 20, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Phoenix<\/strong><\/a> Police say officers found 33-year-old Dominique Mayes with serious injuries near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/Y1dEtFRz82cLNz1G9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">11th Avenue and Buchanan Street<\/a>. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Officers learned that a BNSF train moved a short distance, after which the man was located, and injuries indicated that he had be [sic] struck by the train,&#8221; Sgt. Rob Scherer said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators believe Mayes was near the train and was struck as it began moving.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">An investigation into the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/Y1dEtFRz82cLNz1G9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Map<\/strong><\/a><strong> of where the man was found<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The Phoenix Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\/downtown-phx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; A man was found dead early Saturday morning following an apparent train collision near downtown Phoenix.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,48588,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-242899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-downtown-phx","13":"tag-maricopa-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-phoenix","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\/115239994842521664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242899","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=242899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}