{"id":936260,"date":"2026-07-15T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/936260\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:18:35","slug":"missing-man-found-dead-after-leaving-west-phoenix-group-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/936260\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing man found dead after leaving West Phoenix group home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 safari:ml-6 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 55-year-old man identified as Dean Emerson was found dead hours after walking away from a West Phoenix group home.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 safari:ml-6 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers discovered an unresponsive man on July 9, who was later positively identified as the missing resident.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 safari:ml-6 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Phoenix police reported that there were no obvious signs of trauma at the scene and foul play is not suspected.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; A man who was considered missing after leaving a West Phoenix group home, was found dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What we know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Phoenix Police responded to a report of a missing person near 61st and Indianola avenues on the afternoon of July 9. Staff at the group home told officials that the man, identified as 55-year-old Dean Emerson, left 20 minutes prior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Emerson was entered into the missing persons database,&#8221; the police department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Just before midnight that same day, officers responded to reports of an unresponsive man near <a data-ylk=\"slk:63rd Drive and Indian School Road;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/N+63rd+Dr+%26+W+Indian+School+Rd,+Phoenix,+AZ+85033\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x872b152605705175:0xeed71b0591eb05b9?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>63rd Drive and Indian School Road<\/strong><\/a>. The man, whose identity was unknown at the time, but consistent with the description of Emerson, was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What we don&#8217;t know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said there were no obvious signs of trauma, but his cause of death was not released. However, foul play is not suspected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Dig deeper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives issued a SAFE Alert for Emerson on July 10, but the following day, the Medical Examiner positively identified the man who died as Emerson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Phoenix Police Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A 55-year-old man identified as Dean Emerson was found dead hours after walking away from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":936261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,377239,5425,1589,17042,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,33329],"class_list":["post-936260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-dean-emerson","tag-missing-person","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-police","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-west-phoenix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116923250322777832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936260","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=936260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}