Person’s body found burning off of I-20 in Dallas area, police say
Mesquite police are investigating after officers found an unidentified person’s body burning off of Interstate 20 on Thursday morning, the department said.
Units were dispatched around 6:30 a.m. to help firefighters responding to a fire call in the 17500 block of the eastbound highway. The caller had stated smoke was coming from a wooded area next to the road, just west of High Country Lane, police said in an email.
Responding officers went to the location, where they found a dead person who had been set on fire, police said.
The department didn’t immediately release details about the victim or how the person might have been killed.
Anyone with information is asked to call Mesquite police at 972-285-6336 or Investigator C. Renfrew at 972-329-8301.
This story was originally published June 18, 2020 at 10:16 AM.
