{"id":236888,"date":"2026-04-06T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236888\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:00:30","slug":"crime-of-week-man-found-murdered-in-northeast-el-paso-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236888\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime of Week: Man found murdered in Northeast El Paso apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 El Paso Police and Crime Stoppers of El Paso are asking for your help in solving a murder that happened in Northeast El Paso earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>This is this week\u2019s \u201cCrime of the Week,\u201d as publicized by Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Michael-Terrrell-Jenkins.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2602636\"  \/>Michael Terrell Jenkins<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, March 17, officers from the El Paso Police Department were called out to an apartment along the 8700 block of Lawson to check on the welfare of a resident.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/local\/el-paso-news\/police-id-suspicious-death-body-in-northeast-el-paso\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\u2018Suspicious death\u2019 in Northeast El Paso turns into murder investigation\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When officers entered the apartment, they found 38-year-old Michael Terrell Jenkins dead.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found evidence indicating Jenkins had been murdered. Detectives also believe that the crime took place in late February. <\/p>\n<p>Crimes Against Persons detectives are certain that someone has information on this case.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information on the murder of Michael Terrell Jenkins should call Crime Stoppers of El Paso immediately at (915) 566-8477 (TIPS) or visit online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cselpaso.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.cselpaso.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>You will remain anonymous, and if your tip leads to an arrest, you may qualify for a cash reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 El Paso Police and Crime Stoppers of El Paso are asking for your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-236888","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\/236888","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=236888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}