{"id":780140,"date":"2026-07-04T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780140\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T16:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:51:11","slug":"victim-of-nw-calgary-fatal-assault-identified-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780140\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim of NW Calgary fatal assault identified: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The victim of a <a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2026\/07\/02\/nw-calgary-assault-with-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fatal assault in the city\u2019s Capitol Hill<\/a> area on Thursday has been identified, Calgary police say.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say they were called to the 1300 block of 20 Avenue NW just before 5 p.m. on July 2 on reports of a weapon assault.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, police say a man was found suffering from a life-threatening condition \u2014 dying later in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy Friday revealed the man to be 23-year-old Dale Weasel Head.<\/p>\n<p>One person taken in by police has since been released.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Police ask anyone with information about this incident to call them at 403-266-1234 or leave a tip anonymously through <a href=\"https:\/\/calgarycrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Crime Stoppers<\/a>\u00a0at 1-800-222-8477.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=calgary.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782746833_947_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim of a fatal assault in the city\u2019s Capitol Hill area on Thursday has been identified, Calgary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-780140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780140","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=780140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}