{"id":397915,"date":"2026-08-05T01:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397915\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T01:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:34:15","slug":"body-found-after-love-county-grassfire-identified-as-missing-dallas-man-death-ruled-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397915\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found after Love County grassfire identified as missing Dallas man, death ruled homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LOVE COUNTY, Okla. (KXII) &#8211; The Love County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced investigators have positively identified a body <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxii.com\/2026\/07\/31\/charred-body-found-after-grass-fire-call-love-county\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kxii.com\/2026\/07\/31\/charred-body-found-after-grass-fire-call-love-county\/\">found after a grassfire on July 30<\/a> and determined the cause of death after receiving autopsy results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Love County Sheriff Andy Cumberledge said investigators determined the deceased was a man who was reported missing out of Dallas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cumberledge said the man, whose name has not been released, was identified by the tattoos on his body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Autopsy results ruled the man\u2019s death a homicide, finding four bullet wounds located in the man\u2019s chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cBecause of the evidence that was located at the scene, we believe the homicide did not occur where we found him,\u201d Cumberledge said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation remains ongoing and is being carried out by both the Love County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Dallas Police Department\u2019s Homicide Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Love County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking anyone with information that could help investigators to contact their office at 580-276-5898.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story. KXII 12 will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KXII. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOVE COUNTY, Okla. (KXII) &#8211; The Love County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced investigators have positively identified a body found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11574,139679,294,102,104,103,36738,11575,100000],"class_list":["post-397915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-body","tag-charred","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-discovered","tag-found","tag-love-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397915","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=397915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}