{"id":238159,"date":"2026-07-08T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238159\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:54:08","slug":"authorities-investigating-fatal-east-side-homicide-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238159\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Investigating Fatal East Side Homicide | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fatal shooting on Erie\u2019s east side is now being investigated as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have confirmed that a 61-year-old Erie man was found suffering from gunshot wounds inside a vehicle. He was pronounced dead at 8:47 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Erie Police, along with the Pennsylvania State Police, remain on the scene as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow morning, according to Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook.<\/p>\n<p>This remains an active investigation. We will continue to provide the latest updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fatal shooting on Erie\u2019s east side is now being investigated as a homicide. Authorities have confirmed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19415,17147,136,138,137,4829,15114,457,1224,3628],"class_list":["post-238159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-autopsy","tag-coroner","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-gunshot-wounds","tag-homicide","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-police-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238159","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=238159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}