West Sacramento detectives are seeking the public’s help in solving the 2024 death of an unhoused man near a homeless encampment, police said Thursday.
Police said Dennis Tapp, 46, was found with significant injuries by officers early Nov. 23, 2024, along railroad tracks behind 975 F St. in West Sacramento.
Tapp was taken to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where he died later that day, the West Sacramento Police Department said.
Police are asking anyone with information to call the department’s investigations unit at 916-617-5056 and to share the department’s Facebook post online
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Darrell Smith is a local reporter for The Sacramento Bee. He joined The Bee in 2006 and previously worked at newspapers in Palm Springs, Colorado Springs and Marysville. Smith was born and raised at Beale Air Force Base and lives in Elk Grove.