{"id":290856,"date":"2025-10-10T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290856\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:52:11","slug":"phoenix-police-investigating-after-death-ruled-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290856\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix police investigating after death ruled homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 The Phoenix Police Department is investigating after a man who was found unresponsive in April died.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix police identified the deceased man as 65-year-old Mark Daniel Brendmoen.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that Brendmoen\u2019s death was determined to be a homicide on Thursday following an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>What led to Phoenix police investigating the man\u2019s death?<\/p>\n<p>On April 13, Phoenix police officers were called to the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/ZxY2Z5AducRtJzT76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road<\/a> for reports of on aggravated assault around 4:21 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived on the scene, they reportedly located Brendmoen bleeding from his head in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Brendmoen was transported to a nearby hospital and received multiple surgeries in order to treat a \u201csevere\u201d brain bleed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Phoenix police, Brendmoen died from his injuries on July 20.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the autopsy determined Brendmoen suffered a brain bleed from blunt force injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/silent-witness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Silent Witness<\/a> at 480-WITNESS (948-6377) or 480-TESTIGO (837-8446) for Spanish Speakers.<\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/phoenix-police-unresponsive-man-dead\/5759857\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 The Phoenix Police Department is investigating after a man who was found unresponsive in April died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":290857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[7155,5229,5643,1587,316,1589,7154,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-290856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-92-3-ktar","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-and-arizona-breaking-news-and-news-headlines-home","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\/115347609964221108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290856","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=290856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}