{"id":231235,"date":"2026-04-02T03:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:26:38","slug":"case-upgraded-to-murder-after-homeless-man-found-burning-in-downtown-el-paso-home-dies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231235\/","title":{"rendered":"Case upgraded to murder after homeless man found burning in downtown El Paso home dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A man has died after he was found burning in a home last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A 33-year-old El Paso man was arrested early Saturday after El Paso police said a 47-year-old man was found outside a burning home with injuries consistent with an assault.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called at 3:44 a.m. on 03-28-2026 to the 700 block of North Ochoa on a report of an assaulted person.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the El Paso Fire Department had responded to a structure fire at the location and, during that response, found the victim outside the residence.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim was identified as Salome J Lares, who died days later after the incident while at the burn center in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p>Police said both the suspect and the victim were homeless.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/man-found-outside-burning-home-remains-critical-chaparral-suspect-arrested-police-say?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man found outside burning home remains critical; El Paso suspect arrested, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through the investigation, police identified David Garcia as the person responsible for the assault.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was arrested and booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on a charge of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>His bond was set at $500,000.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the case is now being investigated as a murder.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.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 A man has died after he was found burning in a home last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-231235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231235","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=231235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}