{"id":752042,"date":"2026-06-21T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752042\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:22:14","slug":"calgary-police-investigating-suspicious-death-at-tomkins-park-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752042\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary police investigating suspicious death at Tomkins Park – Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Calgary police are investigating the death of a man who was found severely injured and died at southwest Calgary Park on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Police were called to a reported assault at Tomkins Park in the 800 block of 17th Avenue<\/a> just after 5 p.m. where they found a man in medical distress. Despite life-saving efforts, he died at the scene.<\/p>\n

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One person has been taken into custody.<\/p>\n

Both 16th Avenue and 17th Avenue between 7 Street SW and 8 Street SW were closed for the investigation. They have since been reopened.<\/p>\n

An autopsy is scheduled for Monday. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at (403) 266-1234. People can also submit anonymous tips through Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Calgary police are investigating the death of a man who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,43282,168607,48,2169],"class_list":["post-752042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-assault","tag-calgary-suspicious-death","tag-canada","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}