{"id":233881,"date":"2026-07-02T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233881\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:31:07","slug":"man-faces-murder-charge-after-police-found-woman-dead-in-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233881\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces murder charge after police found woman dead in Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested on a murder charge days after police, responding to a vehicle crash in Erie, found a woman dead outside the vehicle on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>Justin De Nileon, 29, is facing one count of first-degree murder \u2013 after deliberation; and one count of violation of a protection order, according to online court records.<\/p>\n<p>About 1 a.m. June 21, Erie police were dispatched to the crash at Weld County Road 7 and Weld County Road 6, according to a Weld County District Attorney\u2019s Office news release posted Wednesday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they found the 28-year-old woman dead outside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The amount and location of blood were not consistent with a vehicle crash or with a person being thrown from a vehicle, according to the release. A warrant was issued for De Nileon\u2019s arrest June 24, and he was arrested the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The release did not provide additional information about the crash or police response.<\/p>\n<p>De Nileon is being held without bond at the Weld County Jail. He is set to appear for a disposition hearing at 10 a.m. Sept. 2 in Weld County District Court, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>De Nileon was arrested in a May Broomfield case on charges of second-degree kidnapping, felony menacing, and third-degree assault, according to online court records. He is set to appear for a preliminary hearing in that case at 1:30 p.m. July 23 for a preliminary hearing.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested on a murder charge days after police, responding to a vehicle crash in Erie,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1676,11610,136,138,137,1677,241,139,1680],"class_list":["post-233881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-colorado","tag-crime-public-safety","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-weld-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233881","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=233881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}