{"id":267311,"date":"2026-08-18T04:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267311\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T04:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T04:30:06","slug":"man-arrested-in-new-york-city-faces-charges-in-scranton-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267311\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in New York City faces charges in Scranton homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scranton Police say a 21-year-old has been charged in connection with a shooting that killed a man in July.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A man in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> homicide has now been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Scranton Police say 21-year-old Ricardo Nunez-Cruz has been taken into custody in New York City in connection with a shooting that killed 39-year-old Clinton Thornton-Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting took place around 8:30 pm on the 300 block of North Hyde Park in Scranton last month.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez-Cruz is now facing criminal homicide, aggravated assault, and other related charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton Police say a 21-year-old has been charged in connection with a shooting that killed a man in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-267311","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\/267311","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=267311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}