{"id":469364,"date":"2025-12-24T19:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469364\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:20:18","slug":"man-found-dead-in-phoenix-in-what-police-call-a-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469364\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in Phoenix in what police call a homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Phoenix detectives were investigating a man\u2019s death that as of Dec. 23 was considered a homicide, the Phoenix Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At about 8:15 a.m. Dec. 22, officers responded to a call about an injured person near 47th Street and Shea Boulevard, said Sgt. Rob Scherer, a Phoenix police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When officers arrived, they found a deceased man, identified as Zachary Hostetler, 36, according to Scherer.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hostetler&#8217;s death was ruled a homicide Dec. 23 after a postmortem examination done by the Office of the Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Phoenix Police Department has asked anyone with information related to this incident to call Silent Witness at 480(WITNESS) or 480(TESTIGO).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Additionally, a reward was offered for information leading to an arrest in this case, Scherer added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/phoenix-breaking\/2025\/12\/24\/phoenix-police-investigate-homicide-near-shea-boulevard\/87908373007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix police investigate homicide near Shea Boulevard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Phoenix police investigate homicide near Shea Boulevard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix detectives were investigating a man\u2019s death that as of Dec. 23 was considered a homicide, the Phoenix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,11311,213328,65736,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,213150],"class_list":{"0":"post-469364","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-phoenix","12":"tag-phoenix-police-department","13":"tag-postmortem-examination","14":"tag-rob-scherer","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-zachary-hostetler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115776167886181194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469364","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=469364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}