{"id":236018,"date":"2026-07-05T12:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236018\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:11:11","slug":"erie-county-sheriffs-office-investigating-homicide-at-holding-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236018\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Sheriff\u2019s office investigating homicide at holding center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WBEN) The Erie County Sheriff\u2019s office is investigating the homicide of an inmate at the holding center in downtown Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the sheriff\u2019s office said an incarcerated person was found unresponsive in his cell at 11:11 a.m. Saturday. Emergency responders attempted life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead at 11:54 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The death is being investigated as a homicide. The Erie County District Attorney\u2019s Office and the Office of the New York State Attorney General have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said potential suspects have been identified. Investigators have not released any names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WBEN) The Erie County Sheriff\u2019s office is investigating the homicide of an inmate at the holding center in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76402,136,138,137,101695],"class_list":["post-236018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-all-local","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-wbenam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236018","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=236018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}