{"id":235939,"date":"2026-07-05T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235939\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:40:21","slug":"erie-county-investigates-homicide-at-holding-center-following-inmates-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235939\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County investigates homicide at holding center following inmate&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Erie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating the death of a person found unresponsive inside the Erie County Holding Center on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 The Erie County Sheriff\u2019s Office Detective Bureau is investigating the death of a person who was incarcerated at the Erie County Holding Center.<\/p>\n<p>The death was reported Saturday morning, after the person was found unresponsive in a cell at 11:11 a.m.. The case is being treated as a homicide, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Erie County Sheriff John Garcia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jail Management Division staff \u2014 along with personnel from the Buffalo Fire Department and AMR \u2014 responded and attempted lifesaving measures. Despite those efforts, the individual was pronounced dead at 11:54 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Erie County District Attorney\u2019s Office and the Office of the New York State Attorney General have each been notified,&#8221; Garcia said, adding that a potential suspect or suspects have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests or charges were announced. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the person who died has not been released. The sheriff\u2019s office said their identity is being withheld, pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating the death of a person found unresponsive inside the Erie County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-235939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235939","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=235939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}