{"id":208796,"date":"2026-06-02T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208796\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:24:07","slug":"pennsylvania-man-found-dead-in-alabama-after-killing-woman-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208796\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man found dead in Alabama after killing woman, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of killing a woman in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was found dead in Alabama.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/crimewatch.net\/us\/pa\/lancaster\/da\/11617\/post\/suspect-fatal-manheim-borough-shooting-found-dead-alabama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\"> Lancaster County District Attorney&#8217;s Office<\/a> said Michael Boccia was found dead in his vehicle on Monday night from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound near Cullman, which is about 45 miles north of Birmingham. Boccia was wanted in connection with the death of 37-year-old Keshia M. Gonzalez, who was found dead on Monday morning at an apartment in Manheim Borough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Armed and dangerous&#8221; man found dead<\/p>\n<p>The district attorney&#8217;s office said police were called to the Manheim apartment around 7:30 a.m. on Monday for reports of gunshots and a woman yelling for help. At the scene, officers found Gonzalez shot multiple times. She was pronounced dead at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told authorities that they saw Boccia leaving the scene in a maroon sedan. Police later said they were looking for him and considered him &#8220;armed and dangerous.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around 11 p.m. on Monday, Boccia called the Manheim Borough Police Department, threatening to commit suicide, the district attorney&#8217;s office said. He was tracked to Cullman, and Boccia was found dead by police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Alabama State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) was requested to conduct an independent investigation,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cullmanpd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">Cullman Police Department<\/a>\u00a0said in a news release. &#8220;District Attorney Champ Crocker responded to the scene, and an autopsy has been ordered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boccia, of York, was charged with homicide and other offenses in the death of Gonzalez. The <a href=\"https:\/\/crimewatch.net\/us\/pa\/lancaster\/da\/11617\/post\/one-killed-manheim-borough-shooting-suspect-large\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">district attorney&#8217;s office<\/a> said the shooting appeared to be &#8220;related to a domestic incident.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The district attorney&#8217;s office said &#8220;multiple witnesses,&#8221; including family members, told investigators that the 36-year-old Boccia called them on Monday and stated that he had &#8220;done something bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of killing a woman in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was found dead in Alabama.\u00a0 The Lancaster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5307,28,30,29,220],"class_list":["post-208796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-alabama","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208796","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=208796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}