{"id":51392,"date":"2025-12-03T20:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51392\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:20:12","slug":"victim-of-west-erie-fatal-shooting-identified-death-ruled-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51392\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim of west Erie fatal shooting identified, death ruled homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim of a fatal shooting on Erie\u2019s west side Monday night has been identified, with his death being ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook identified the victim as 23-year-old Michael Mendralla of Erie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/erie-police-investigating-fatal-shooting-on-citys-west-side-tuesday\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Erie police investigating fatal shooting on city\u2019s west side Tuesday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Erie police investigating fatal shooting on city\u2019s west side Tuesday <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cook said Mendralla died from a single gunshot wound to the lower extremities and was taken to UPMC Hamot, where he later succumbed to his injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That shooting happened outside a residence in the 500 block of West 9th Street, with Erie police saying Mandralla tried to drive himself to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not named a suspect at this time and are asking anyone for any \u201csuspicious\u201d surveillance they may have of that area around that time, while anyone with information is asked to contact them or Sergeant Jason Russell, who is the lead investigator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The victim of a fatal shooting on Erie\u2019s west side Monday night has been identified, with his death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,142,138,137,5585,4829,29224,29223,20383],"class_list":{"0":"post-51392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-county","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-erie-police","13":"tag-fatal-shooting","14":"tag-lower-extremities","15":"tag-michael-mendralla","16":"tag-upmc-hamot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51392","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=51392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}