{"id":218833,"date":"2026-03-24T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218833\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:33:09","slug":"police-identify-man-found-dead-in-northeast-el-paso-death-deemed-suspicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218833\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify man found dead in northeast El Paso; death deemed suspicious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police are investigating the death of a 38-year-old man after officers found him during a welfare check last week.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called at 2:27 p.m. on March 17 to the 3800 block of Lawson on a report of a welfare check. <\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived and checked the residence, they located Michael Jenkins, 38, a Northeast El Paso resident, dead.<\/p>\n<p>Officers notified the Crimes Against Persons unit, which responded and took over the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Because of Jenkins\u2019 injuries, investigators determined the death was suspicious in nature and are continuing the murder investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Jenkins\u2019 death is asked to call police at 915-832-4400. <\/p>\n<p>Those who want to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 915-566-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/detectives-investigate-suspicious-death-in-northeast-el-paso?src=linkj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Detectives investigate &#8216;suspicious death&#8217; in Northeast El Paso, 29-year-old man found dead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso police are investigating the death of a 38-year-old man after officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-218833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218833","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=218833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}