The Mesquite Police Department is asking for help finding out what happened to a person officers found burned to death on the side of a highway Tuesday morning in Mesquite.
Mesquite police officers were dispatched around 6:30 a.m. to the 17500 block of eastbound Interstate 20 to help the Mesquite Fire Department on a fire call.
According to the police, the caller said they could see smoke in the woods by the highway west of High Country Lane. Police arrived and found a body that had been set on fire and burned to death.
Mesquite police say anyone with any information can call the Mesquite Police Department at 972-285-6336 or call the investigator at 972-329-8301.
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