{"id":267188,"date":"2026-08-18T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267188\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:06:07","slug":"arrest-made-in-deadly-july-shooting-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267188\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in deadly July shooting in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO.  \u2014 Scranton Police announcing the arrest of 21-year-old Ricardo Nunez-Cruz in connection to a July 2026 deadly shooting. <\/p>\n<p>Police say the shooting took place in West Scranton killing 39-year-old Clinton Thornton-Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez-Cruz was taken into custody in New York City with the help of the U.S. Marshals Service Regional Fugitive Task Force. <\/p>\n<p>Nunez-Cruz has been charges with felony criminal homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, hindering apprehension or prosecution, firearms not to be carried without a license, and recklessly endangering another person. <\/p>\n<p>He is currently being held at Rikers Island in New York pending extradition to Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. \u2014 Scranton Police announcing the arrest of 21-year-old Ricardo Nunez-Cruz in connection to a July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-267188","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\/267188","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=267188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}