Mitchell Polk
DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer
Dallas Police are investigating the murder of Mitchell Polk, a gay man whose body found Aug. 23 outside an abandoned, boarded-up building off Peabody Avenue in South Dallas, near AIDS Arms’ Peabody Clinic.
Polk’s body was reportedly found naked with a gash in his head.
The body remained unidentified for several days, until a friend filed a missing person report on Polk.
Funeral services were held Sept. 3 at Cornerstone Baptist Church on MLK Jr. Boulevard.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition September 16, 2016.