{"id":291436,"date":"2025-10-10T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291436\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:04:17","slug":"man-found-beaten-in-phoenix-dies-months-later-death-ruled-a-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/291436\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found beaten in Phoenix dies months later; death ruled a homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Phoenix police are trying to find the person who beat a man who died months after he was attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The investigation started on April 13, just before 4:30 p.m., when police found 65-year-old Mark Daniel Brendmoen in critical condition and bleeding from his head in the area of 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">He was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent multiple surgeries for the brain bleed. However, on July 20, he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The next day, an autopsy revealed the brain bleed was because he was beaten, but the \u201cresults of the autopsy were pended,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">On Thursday, his death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Homicide detectives are now in charge of the investigation and they are asking if anyone has information to please call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO for Spanish speakers, where all tips can remain anonymous.<\/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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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 Phoenix police are trying to find the person who beat a man who died months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":291437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[73333,5229,5643,1587,7182,149385,149387,149389,4221,1589,7183,17042,67,586,132,5230,149388,149386,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-291436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-19th-avenue","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-azfamily","13":"tag-beaten-to-death","14":"tag-bethany-home","15":"tag-blunt-force-injuries","16":"tag-homicide","17":"tag-phoenix","18":"tag-phoenix-news","19":"tag-phoenix-police","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-unsolved-homicide","25":"tag-unsresponsive","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115348837209293917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291436","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=291436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}