{"id":4660,"date":"2025-07-17T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/4660\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:37:10","slug":"major-update-in-kings-heath-murder-probe-after-craig-dean-fatally-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/4660\/","title":{"rendered":"Major update in Kings Heath murder probe after Craig Dean fatally attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detectives have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of murder after the victim was found with serious injuriesFlowers and tributes left for Craig Dean in Kings Heath(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n

Police have made an arrest in a murder probe after a man was fatally attacked in a street.<\/p>\n

Craig Dean was attacked in Springfield Road, Kings Heath, at around 5pm on Monday, 7 July. The 53-year-old, known as ‘Yankee’, died in hospital two days later.<\/p>\n

Detectives investigating his death today, Wednesday, July 16, arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of murder. Three others were being held on suspicion of assisting an offender<\/p>\n

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West Midlands Police<\/a> said: “A 23-year-old man has today been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man, found with serious injuries in Kings Heath<\/a>, tragically died.<\/p>\n

“The 23-year-old was detained earlier today and remains in police custody as investigators continue with enquiries.”<\/p>\n

Three other people, two men aged 23 and 31 and a woman, aged 34, were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. They also remained in custody this evening.<\/p>\n

The family of Mr Dean were being kept informed and are being offered support, police said.<\/p>\n

Floral tributes left in memory of Craig Dean outside Asda in Kings Heath High Street(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n

“Our thoughts remain with Mr Dean’s loved ones and we are continuing with our work to establish exactly what happened,” said Det Insp Dan Jarratt, who is leading the investigation.<\/p>\n

“The investigation is moving at pace and we’d ask anyone who we’ve not yet spoken with, but who thinks they can help, to get in touch.”<\/p>\n

Officers are particularly interested in anyone with CCTV, dashcam doorbell or mobile phone footage. They said: “We’d ask you share it here https:\/\/mipp.police.uk\/operation\/20HQ25A13-PO1<\/a> rather than publicly.<\/p>\n

“You can also call us via 101, quoting log 4334 of 7\/7\/25. Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555111. Tell them what you know, not who you are.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of murder after the victim was found with serious injuriesFlowers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,2870,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-kings-heath-and-stirchley","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}