{"id":79680,"date":"2026-01-06T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79680\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:38:11","slug":"pennsylvania-woman-found-beaten-to-death-inside-hotel-room-in-copley-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/79680\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania woman found beaten to death inside hotel room in Copley Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NKCWED3LLVBELFUASDRBAZJAVA\">COPLEY TOWNSHIP, Ohio &#8211; Police are investigating the death of a 24-year-old woman whose body was discovered in a hotel room in Copley Township on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"J2HSPOXTLRGMXLTP6ENTLM27CI\">The Copley Police Department identified the victim as Shawnna Elizabeth Pasquale of Erie, Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5BYQEUUXUVFQFMTT6TR5TW4T6I\">Officers responded to a hotel on Rothrock Road after they received a report of a woman dead inside a hotel room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JPACERYDZJCVNE5V6M7WN5CHIY\">Investigators concluded Pasquale died as a result of a physical assault. The office of the Summit County medical examiner ruled Pasquale\u2019s death a homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DFWOVXYZVZEFPAX6PJONZDFI3Y\">Authorities did not provide additional information on what led up to Pasquale\u2019s death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4B77NDE46BCA7ELWQYDUQILJ2U\">No arrests have been made in connection with the attack, according to Lt. Mike Yovanno. Authorities did not indicate if any suspects have been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"32HYREKFOVDVJFY7TVNORD2VM4\">The Copley Police Department is urging anyone with information about the case to contact Det. Jerry Perona at 330-670-2708 or Lt. Yovanno at 330-670-2723. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COPLEY TOWNSHIP, Ohio &#8211; Police are investigating the death of a 24-year-old woman whose body was discovered in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40477,40478,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-79680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-generic-police-lights","tag-generic-police-sirens","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79680","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=79680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}