{"id":63510,"date":"2025-12-07T19:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63510\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:38:06","slug":"riley-county-police-investigate-homicide-after-manhattan-man-died-early-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63510\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley County police investigate homicide after Manhattan man died early Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; The Riley County Police Department is investigating a homicide after a Manhattan man died Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Saturday, Dec. 6, around 12:17 a.m., officers responded to the 800 block of Colorado Street for a reported welfare check on an injured man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When officers arrived, they located 36-year-old Mark Rickenbaker, of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rickenbaker was found with serious injuries to his body. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During their investigation, officers discovered that he had been involved in an altercation before their arrival. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rickenbaker was taken to the hospital and died as a result of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RCPD says this was an isolated incident and the investigation is still ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WIBW has reached out to RCPD for more information. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This story will be updated as more details are released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information regarding the investigation should contact the Riley County Crime Stoppers at 785-539-7777. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; The Riley County Police Department is investigating a homicide after a Manhattan man died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1027,3663,2837,17991,75,84,83,33411,9,24,63,104,3132,3101],"class_list":["post-63510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-homicide","tag-hospital","tag-injuries","tag-investigate","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mark-rickenbaker","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-police","tag-riley-county","tag-riley-county-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}