Dead man found in Phoenix leads to police investigation
PHOENIX - A dead man was found in Phoenix Sunday morning and police are investigating what could've led up to his death.
At around 7:50 a.m. on Oct. 22, Phoenix Police were called to the area of 67th Avenue and Indian School Road for reports of someone who was injured. Phoenix Fire personnel declared the man dead at the scene.
Officials have identified the victim as 35-year-old Lee Trevizo.
"This incident continues to be investigated as detectives learn what caused and led up to this incident," Phoenix Police said.
Police say this is being investigated as a homicide.
"I saw something off the road, so I slowed down and as I got closer, I saw it was somebody’s body. I could tell it was dead," Howard Petty said.
He says what he saw was the bloodied body of a man, missing clothes and a shoe.
"There was a cut along his forehead here like somebody had split his head open. The way his body was laying, they would have had to pick him up and throw him out there," Petty said.
The Phoenix Police command center van, the medical examiner, and the crime scene tape near the canal drew residents to the scene.
"One of the ambulances drove off and I thought, ‘Police are still down there.’ So, I went down there to look and I said ‘there’s a body down there,’" Mary Drummond said.
In the 51 years she’s lived in Phoenix, she says the area has gotten worse.
"It’s a little scary, it really is, because we hear so many gunshots through the night around here. We really do," Drummond said.