{"id":6898,"date":"2025-10-18T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6898\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T08:45:09","slug":"man-in-custody-in-city-of-erie-allegedly-involved-in-new-york-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6898\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in custody in City of Erie allegedly involved in New York murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/yourerie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WJET\/WFXP<\/a>) \u2013\u00a0A man who is currently in custody in the City of Erie may soon be extradited to New York for his alleged involvement in a murder. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, July 30, the Amherst Police Department released a statement regarding a death that occurred on Tuesday, July 29, on Niagara Falls Boulevard. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, the death, which was originally reported as a medical emergency, was later declared a homicide following an investigation by Amherst police detectives and the Erie County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p>The victim was identified as a 27-year-old resident of Amherst, New York, but her identity is being withheld pending the notification of her family. <\/p>\n<p>Police said their main suspect in the murder, 37-year-old Buffalo, New York, resident Daniel Negron, is currently in custody in the City of Erie. <\/p>\n<p>Negron was arrested after threatening suicide at a Catholic mass on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n<p>Around 5 p.m., Erie City Police responded to St. Peter Cathedral and found Negron with a knife in his hand. <\/p>\n<p>According to Deputy Chief Rick Lorah, police instructed Negron to drop the knife, but he ran off and told officers to kill him. <\/p>\n<p>Negron had to be tased, and officers forcefully removed the knife from his hands as he was trying to push the knife into his own chest. <\/p>\n<p>During the encounter, Negron said that he hurt his girlfriend at a hotel in Buffalo. <\/p>\n<p>Negron was arrested and faces several charges, including terroristic threats, possessing an instrument of a crime and recklessly endangering another person. <\/p>\n<p>He is also facing charges from the Amherst Police Department for second-degree murder for the death of his girlfriend. <\/p>\n<p>The Amherst Police Department secured an arrest warrant for Negron, but he is being held in Pennsylvania pending extradition proceedings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJET\/WFXP) \u2013\u00a0A man who is currently in custody in the City of Erie may soon be extradited to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6163,1611,841,6162,136,6165,138,137,783,237,6164],"class_list":["post-6898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-amherst-police-department","tag-buffalo","tag-city-of-erie","tag-daniel-negron","tag-erie","tag-erie-county-medical-examiners-office","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898","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=6898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}