{"id":349039,"date":"2025-12-14T23:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349039\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:16:15","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-connection-with-suspicious-death-of-93-year-old-lafayette-dailey-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349039\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in connection with suspicious death of 93-year-old Lafayette Dailey in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, December 14, 2025 6:18PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Suspect arrested in connection with suspicious death of 93-year-old in Logan\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A suspect has been arrested and charged with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/vehicle-found-amid-investigation-suspicious-death-93-year-old-man-lafayette-dailey-logan-section-philadelphia\/18272054\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">murder of a 93-year-old man<\/a> in Philadelphia&#8217;s Logan section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect, 53-year-old Coy Thomas, was taken into custody Sunday at 22nd and Lehigh avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Thomas is believed to have stabbed Lafayette Dailey last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was found inside his home on the 4500 block of North 16th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Dailey&#8217;s car and wallet were missing, although his car was later recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, December 14, 2025 6:18PM PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A suspect has been arrested and charged with the murder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[174041,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-349039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-174041","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}