{"id":370416,"date":"2026-07-12T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370416\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:27:10","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-in-dallas-after-victim-dies-days-after-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/370416\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder in Dallas after victim dies days after fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is facing a <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">homicide charge<\/a> nearly a week after a fight unfolded in Dallas due to the victim&#8217;s death, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dillon-hill.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"dillon-hill.jpg \" height=\"847\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Dillon Hill<\/p>\n<p>                Dallas County Jail<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a disturbance on Harry Hines Boulevard near the Dallas North Tollway around 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 5. Investigators said 34-year-old Dillon Hill got into a fight with 50-year-old John Zuniga. Hill reportedly punched Zuniga, causing Zuniga to fall and hit his head.<\/p>\n<p>Zuniga ws taken to a hospital in critical condition that night, and Dallas Police said Hill was initially charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>The department said Zuniga died of injuries at the hospital days later, on Thursday, July 9. Hill is now charged with murder and held without bond in jail.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is still ongoing. Anyone with additional information is asked to call Detective Guy Curtis at 214-671-3633 or email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/dallas-murder-fight-charge-7-12-2026\/mailto:guy.curtis@dallaspolice.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">guy.curtis@dallaspolice.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing a homicide charge nearly a week after a fight unfolded in Dallas due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,104,103,4081,2461],"class_list":["post-370416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-homicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370416","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=370416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}