{"id":296478,"date":"2026-09-29T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296478\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:44:10","slug":"man-charged-after-woman-beaten-to-death-in-north-philly-police-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296478\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after woman beaten to death in North Philly: Police \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is in custody after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/police-investigate-death-of-woman-found-inside-philadelphia-home\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/police-investigate-death-of-woman-found-inside-philadelphia-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a woman was found dead<\/a> due to severe blunt force trauma to her head in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/north-philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">North Philadelphia<\/a> home, police told NBC10. <\/p>\n<p>Melvin Rivera, 46, was taken into custody on Saturday, Sept. 26, after 48-year-old Maria Pagan was found dead in her home at the 1200 block of Erie Avenue at about 5:53 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>Rivera is facing a murder charge, as well as a charge of possessing an instrument of a crime with intent, according to court documents. He remains in custody and was denied bail. <\/p>\n<p>\tIf you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline by calling 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), visiting\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehotline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.thehotline.org<\/a>\u00a0or texting LOVEIS to 22522.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in custody after a woman was found dead due to severe blunt force trauma to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[221,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-296478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296478","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=296478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}