BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2014 The Erie County District Attorney’s Office announced that two inmates are accused of killing another inmate inside the Erie County Holding Center.<\/p>\n
The DA said 49-year-old Chico Garcia of Buffalo and\u00a021-year-old Skyler J. Gill of Lancaster\u00a0were arraigned Thursday in Erie County Court and were both charged with second-degree murder.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, just after 11 a.m. on July 4, 2026, deputies found an inmate, 27-year-old Antonio Pizarro, unresponsive inside a cell at the holding center. The sheriff\u2019s office Jail Management Division staff, the Buffalo Fire Department and American Medical Response (AMR) paramedics responded and performed life-saving measures, but Pizarro was pronounced dead at approximately 11:54 a.m. The manner of death was ruled as a homicide caused by strangulation by the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office.<\/p>\n
Garcia and Gill are accused of acting in concert with each other to intentionally cause Pizarro’s death. They were held without bail and a return court date has not been scheduled at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2014 The Erie County District Attorney’s Office announced that two inmates are accused of killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-244971","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\/244971","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=244971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}