{"id":247822,"date":"2026-07-20T17:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247822\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:36:19","slug":"coroner-identifies-west-scranton-shooting-victim-says-manner-of-death-was-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247822\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies West Scranton shooting victim, says manner of death was homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lackawanna County coroner on Monday identified last week&#8217;s West Scranton shooting victim as city resident Clinton Thornton-Hill, 39.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton-Hill died of a single gunshot wound to his abdomen. The manner of death is homicide, Coroner Tim Rowland said in an email to media.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Police Department is investigating the case, Rowland said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an active criminal investigation so we will not provide commentary at this time,&#8221; Scranton Police Chief Thomas Carroll said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Rowland previously said Thornton-Hill died at the Geisinger Community Medical Center emergency department at about 8:30 p.m. Friday. He was transported to the hospital by EMS after being found unconscious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lackawanna County coroner on Monday identified last week&#8217;s West Scranton shooting victim as city resident Clinton Thornton-Hill,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-247822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247822","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=247822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}