{"id":79673,"date":"2026-01-06T22:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79673\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:32:14","slug":"homicide-ruled-in-death-of-erie-woman-found-in-copley-ohio-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79673\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide ruled in death of Erie woman found in Copley, Ohio hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

COPLEY, Ohio \u2014 Authorities are investiging the death of a young Erie woman who was found in a hotel room New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n

The police department in Copley, west of Akron, identified the woman in a news release sent to the Erie Times-News Jan. 6 as Shawnna Elizabeth Pasquale, 24. She was found deceased Jan. 1 in a hotel room on Rothrock Road, east of Interstate 77, according to information in the release.<\/p>\n

Copley police detectives and the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office determined Pasquale died as the result of a physical assault, investigators wrote in the release.<\/p>\n

The death was ruled a homicide. She died of multiple blunt-force injuries, an investigator in the Medical Examiner’s Office said Jan. 6.<\/p>\n

More: Erie police find suspect vehicle as probe ongoing in fatal hit-and-run<\/a><\/p>\n

Copley police said Jan. 6 they are not releasing any more information at this time as the investigation into the homicide continues.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information that could assist in the investigation is asked to call Copley police Detective Jerry Perona at (330) 670-2708 or Lt. Mike Yovanno at (330) 670-2723.<\/p>\n

Contact Tim Hahn at\u00a0thahn@usatodayco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Authorities probe killing of Erie woman in Copley, Ohio hotel Jan. 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPLEY, Ohio \u2014 Authorities are investiging the death of a young Erie woman who was found in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40386,136,138,137,40474,293,10846,15568,40473],"class_list":["post-79673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-copley","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-medical-examiner39s-office","tag-ohio","tag-police-department","tag-police-detectives","tag-shawnna-elizabeth-pasquale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673","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=79673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}