{"id":345789,"date":"2026-09-13T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345789\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:20:09","slug":"update-man-charged-with-murder-in-jay-homicide-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345789\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Man charged with murder in Jay homicide case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JAY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; The New York State Police arrested a 48-year-old Ausable Forks man Sunday in connection with the homicide of 54-year-old Patricia Lawrence, found dead in her Jay residence in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tucker J. Taylor is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Lawrence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State police say they responded to 150 Carey Road in the town of Jay on Aug. 2, 2026, after Lawrence was found deceased inside her residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say they executed multiple search warrants shortly after her body was discovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They also asked residents and businesses in the surrounding area to review security camera footage for any suspicious activity between 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, and 9 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sunday, Taylor was taken into custody without incident in Plattsburgh, he will be arraigned in the Town of Elizabethtown Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Previous Stories:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/08\/21\/still-no-arrest-3-weeks-after-north-country-homicide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2026\/08\/21\/still-no-arrest-3-weeks-after-north-country-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.wcax.com\/2026\/08\/21\/still-no-arrest-3-weeks-after-north-country-homicide\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/video\/2026\/08\/03\/police-id-woman-found-dead-northern-ny-death-ruled-homicide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/video\/2026\/08\/03\/police-id-woman-found-dead-northern-ny-death-ruled-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.wcax.com\/video\/2026\/08\/03\/police-id-woman-found-dead-northern-ny-death-ruled-homicide\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; The New York State Police arrested a 48-year-old Ausable Forks man Sunday in connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-345789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}