A North Texas man now faces a murder charge after the victim in an alleged assault outside a Dallas business earlier this month died from his injuries.<\/p>\n
Dallas police said Dillon Michael Hill, 34, was initially arrested July 5 on a charge of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. The charge was upgraded to murder after 50-year-old John David Zuniga died from injuries sustained in the incident.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest affidavit, officers responded to a disturbance in the 4200 block of Harry Hines Boulevard around 2:13 a.m. July 5. Investigators said witnesses had separated Hill and Zuniga when Hill allegedly yelled, “I’m a killer” and “You don’t know me” before punching Zuniga with a closed fist.<\/p>\n
Police said Zuniga fell backward down patio stairs and struck his head on the pavement. Officers found him unresponsive and without a pulse, performed CPR and turned him over to Dallas Fire-Rescue crews, who took him to a hospital.<\/p>\n
Authorities said Zuniga suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain and later died from his injuries. <\/p>\n
Police said Hill also had active warrant holds from the Grand Prairie and Arlington police departments when he was arrested. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A North Texas man now faces a murder charge after the victim in an alleged assault outside a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,104,103,631,636],"class_list":["post-372482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-death","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372482","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=372482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}