{"id":186746,"date":"2026-05-08T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186746\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:19:38","slug":"police-accuse-erie-mom-of-driving-to-corry-for-drug-deal-when-fatal-fire-broke-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186746\/","title":{"rendered":"Police accuse Erie mom of driving to Corry for drug deal when fatal fire broke out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WJET Erie;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WJET Erie\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Thu, May 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_wjet_erie_articles_147\/bdcf39ad8e51ed7db0f760487aeec50e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police accuse Erie mom of driving to Corry for drug deal when fatal fire broke out<\/p>\n<p>New information has been obtained in the case against the Erie mom whose children were trapped in a burning home and later died while she was allegedly out selling drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, we got our hands on the criminal complaint and it further spelled out what investigators said happened in the moments leading up to that fatal fire.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, 22-year-old Danozjna Williams told police she left for about five minutes to run to Walmart and her brother was watching her kids.<\/p>\n<p>But investigators said that\u2019s not true. Williams\u2019 children were home alone for about 50 minutes while she drove to Corry to sell $300 worth of fentanyl and\/or heroin.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the buyer allegedly told police she was paying Williams a $60 delivery fee.<\/p>\n<p>While Williams was driving to Corry her apartment caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>Her 5 and 3-year-old children were pronounced dead at an Erie hospital. Her 5-month-old was flown to Pittsburgh, where she later died.<\/p>\n<p>There is currently an active arrest warrant for Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Coverage:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thu, May 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM UTC Police accuse Erie mom of driving to Corry for drug&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[82876,136,138,137,9521,8769],"class_list":["post-186746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-danozjna-williams","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fatal-fire","tag-investigators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}