{"id":197664,"date":"2026-03-10T03:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197664\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:19:07","slug":"dallas-police-investigating-after-person-found-dead-in-creek-near-lake-highlands-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/197664\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police investigating after person found dead in creek near Lake Highlands park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas police<\/a> are investigating<\/a> after a person was found dead near a Lake Highlands<\/a> park Monday night, according to a statement.<\/p>\n

Dallas Fire-Rescue was called around 7:38 p.m. following reports of a body being found in a creek bottom, spokesperson Jason Evans said.<\/p>\n

Officials retrieved the unidentified body and confirmed they were dead at the scene, Evans said.<\/p>\n

Police responded to a call for assistance from DFR around 8 p.m. in the 8500 block of Walnut Hill Lane near Harry S Moss Park, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

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Officials said they have not determined whether the death will be investigated as a homicide.<\/p>\n

No further information about the incident was immediately available.<\/p>\n

The incident marks the second investigation into a death at a Lake Highlands park in the last week.<\/p>\n

Officers responded to reports of an unconscious 42-year-old man lying in the grass<\/a> near Cottonwood Creek Trail Friday evening. Police said they are investigating the death as a homicide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas police are investigating after a person was found dead near a Lake Highlands park Monday night, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103,401,962,1225],"class_list":{"0":"post-197664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-county","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-dallas-police","13":"tag-lake-highlands","14":"tag-public-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}