{"id":267068,"date":"2026-08-17T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267068\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:24:11","slug":"pennsylvania-man-charged-with-shooting-and-killing-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267068\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania man charged with shooting and killing his father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is charged with shooting and killing his father at a home in Cook Township on Saturday, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Westmoreland County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said state police found 59-year-old Edward Lawrence Jr. dead near a garage after they were called to a home for a reported shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said Edward Lawrence&#8217;s wife told troopers that her son, 28-year-old Cody Lawrence, intervened in an ongoing argument between her and her husband and shot him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She told troopers that she and her husband had been bickering throughout the day, and after an argument later on, she heard a loud noise and saw her son and husband emerge from the front door, with her husband saying he&#8217;d been shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said Cody Lawrence told them that he saw his father reaching for a gun in his waistband, and the two of them fought over it before it went off. Cody Lawrence also said a pocketknife fell out of his sweatshirt during the struggle, so his father may have been stabbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After searching the property, police said troopers found a pistol hidden near the front entrance and a folding knife nearby. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Edward Lawrence had a gunshot wound and two stab wounds to his back. Troopers said they didn&#8217;t find any evidence that Edward Lawrence&#8217;s wife was in danger at the time of the shooting, and there was no physical evidence that Cody Lawrence had been involved in a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Lawrence was charged with homicide and denied bail, the district attorney&#8217;s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is charged with shooting and killing his father at a home in Cook Township on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[457,28,30,29,220,5910],"class_list":["post-267068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-homicide","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-shooting","tag-westmoreland-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267068","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=267068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}