{"id":960039,"date":"2026-07-26T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960039\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:38:14","slug":"mans-body-found-near-south-mountain-hiking-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/960039\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s body found near South Mountain hiking trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A man\u2019s body was found in South Mountain Park on Saturday, according to officials with the Phoenix Police Department. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Police got a call about a possible dead body around 5 p.m. near National Trail. Police found the body during a search of the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">No immediate signs of foul play were found, police said, and the death investigation is ongoing. Phoenix Fire Department crews are helping to recover the body, police officials said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">How the man died will be determined by the Office of the Medical Examiner, officials said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 A man\u2019s body was found in South Mountain Park on Saturday, according to officials with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":960040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,18820,386023,1589,386024,7183,386022,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-960039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-azfamily","tag-body-found","tag-national-trail","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-death-investigation","tag-phoenix-news","tag-south-mountain-park","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116985378082467848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960039","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=960039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}