A 29-year-old Summit man faces a murder charge in the death of a 24-year-old Erie, Pa., woman and faces additional charges for the sexual assault and kidnapping of a second woman, according to police.
Marcus Dangelo Price was charged on Friday with murder, rape, felonious assault and kidnapping.
On Jan. 1, Copley police said they received a report of a woman found dead inside a hotel room on Rothrock Road. Detectives and the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that the woman, later identified as Shawnna Elizabeth Pasquale, died as a result of physical assault. Her death was ruled a homicide.
Woman found dead in Copley hotel, police investigating
According to police, Price and Pasquale were in a relationship and had been staying in the same hotel room together around the time Pasquale died…