{"id":245048,"date":"2026-07-16T17:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245048\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:45:25","slug":"2-erie-county-inmates-accused-of-killing-another-inmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245048\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Erie County inmates accused of killing another inmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two inmates at the Erie County Holding Center have been charged with 2nd Degree Murder.<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Two inmates at the Erie County Holding Center have been charged with killing another inmate.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/news\/crime\/erie-county-investigates-homicide-at-holding-center\/71-78ee1806-fd50-4e94-983b-24d215860267\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erie County investigates homicide at holding center following inmate&#8217;s death<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chico Garcia, 49 of Buffalo, and Skyler J. Gill, 21 of Lancaster, were arraigned Thursday morning and charged with one count of Murder in the 2nd Degree.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Erie County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, on Saturday, July 4, shortly before 11:15 a.m., deputies found Antonio Pizarro, 27, unresponsive inside of his cell. Despite life-saving efforts, Pizarro was pronounced dead at 11:54 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Officer determined Pizarro was killed by strangulation.<\/p>\n<p>Both Garcia and Gill were held without bail. They face a maximum of 25 years to life in prison if convicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A return court date has not been scheduled yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two inmates at the Erie County Holding Center have been charged with 2nd Degree Murder. BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-245048","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\/245048","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=245048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}