{"id":249105,"date":"2025-09-23T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249105\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:04:17","slug":"body-found-near-canal-in-phoenix-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249105\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found near canal in Phoenix, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; Police say they are investigating a homicide after a man was found dead on Monday near a Phoenix canal.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Phoenix<\/strong><\/a> Police Department says officers on Sept. 22 responded to the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/xdDnhWLkkaJVuwwP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">36th and Portland Streets<\/a> and found a body near the canal.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Officers discovered the man was dead and in the beginning stages of decomposition with obvious signs of trauma,&#8221; police said. &#8220;The area around the scene was secured, and detectives responded to investigate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators say they collected evidence, spoke to nearby residents and looked for surveillance video. The body was transferred to the medical examiner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The victim hasn&#8217;t been identified and the cause of death is unknown.<\/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=\"\">&#8220;Detectives await the findings from the post-mortem exam and the identification of the victim,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>police<\/strong><\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Anyone with information should contact police at 602-262-6151 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/xdDnhWLkkaJVuwwP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Map<\/strong><\/a><strong> of area where the body 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\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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; Police say they are investigating a homicide after a man was found dead on Monday near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-249105","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-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115253992782131777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249105","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=249105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}