{"id":248805,"date":"2025-09-23T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248805\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:31:09","slug":"homicide-investigation-underway-after-body-found-near-phoenix-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248805\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation underway after body found near Phoenix canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Police are investigating after finding a body near a canal in Phoenix on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Around 11:45 a.m., officers responded to the call near 36th and Portland streets for reports of a body. When they arrived on the scene, witnesses showed them where the dead man was. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Officers say the body was in the beginning stages of decomposition and had obvious signs of trauma. The victim has not been identified. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Detectives surveyed the area and talked to residents in the neighborhood to gain information on what could have led up to this homicide. They are still waiting for the results of the autopsy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Anyone with information is urged to call Phoenix police at 602-262-7626. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO for Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Police are investigating after finding a body near a canal in Phoenix on Monday. Around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":248806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,18820,57827,4219,4221,1589,7183,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-248805","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-azfamily","12":"tag-body-found","13":"tag-canal","14":"tag-crime","15":"tag-homicide","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-phoenix-news","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248805","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=248805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}