{"id":73788,"date":"2025-12-30T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73788\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:13:06","slug":"scranton-woman-18-is-dead-and-her-boyfriend-is-held-for-assault-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/73788\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton woman, 18, is dead and her boyfriend is held for assault, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 An 18-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> woman died Monday and her boyfriend from South Carolina is set to be arraigned for felony assault, Scranton police said today.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, Rose Hernandez, was found bleeding and unresponsive late Monday afternoon in the rear of 1131 West Locust Street in West Side, the city police said in a statement. Hernandez&#8217;s injuries, police said, were &#8220;consistent with being struck by a motor vehicle.&#8221; An autopsy is scheduled today.<\/p>\n<p>Her boyfriend, Joseph Garcia, 18, told the police they were in an argument that escalated when she tried to grab his car door handle as he accelerated away. He claimed that as he stopped the car, Hernandez struck another vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the police arrived, she was in a pool of blood and bleeding from her mouth. She wasn&#8217;t breathing. An ambulance from Pennsylvania Ambulance rushed her to Geisinger Community Medical Center&#8217;s trauma unit, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The police charged Garcia with two counts of felony aggravated assault. He will be arraigned this morning by Magisterial District Judge Paul Keeler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 An 18-year-old Scranton woman died Monday and her boyfriend from South Carolina is set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-73788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73788","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=73788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}