{"id":387757,"date":"2026-07-27T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387757\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:59:08","slug":"dallas-police-investigate-mans-unexplained-death-on-wendelkin-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387757\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Police Investigate Man&#8217;s Unexplained Death On Wendelkin Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                    Abstracted illuminated night view of police units on a city street. | Image by Matt Gush\/Shutterstock                                <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dpdbeat.com\/2026\/07\/26\/unexplained-on-wendelkin-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas police<\/a> are investigating the <a href=\"https:\/\/dpdbeat.com\/2026\/07\/26\/unexplained-on-wendelkin-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unexplained<\/a> death of 60-year-old Moroco Conerly, who was found unresponsive Sunday afternoon on Wendelkin Street.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a call for service in the 3500 block of Wendelkin Street at about 2:20 p.m. on July 26. The department\u2019s preliminary investigation determined that Conerly was unresponsive at the location.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Fire-Rescue personnel responded and pronounced Conerly dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police classified the case as an unexplained death. The department did not announce a cause or manner of death or say whether investigators suspect foul play. DPD also did not disclose what prompted the original call or where on the block Conerly was found.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are examining the facts and circumstances surrounding Conerly\u2019s death under case No. 109140-2026.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact Detective D. Grubbs at 469-540-6377 or <a href=\"https:\/\/dallasexpress.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"b9ddd8cfd0dd97decbccdbdbcad3cbf9ddd8d5d5d8cac9d6d5d0dadc97ded6cf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abstracted illuminated night view of police units on a city street. | Image by Matt Gush\/Shutterstock Dallas police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,9379,104,103,401,136672,136674,136673],"class_list":["post-387757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-fire-rescue","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-moroco-conerly","tag-unexplained-death","tag-wendelkin-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387757","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=387757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}