Man charged with strangulation, homicide after woman killed in Bristol home
Aug 14, 2026
A Bristol man has been charged with strangulation, homicide, aggravated assault and related offenses after, officials said, a woman was killed in a home on Wood Street in Bristol on Thursday morning.
According to court documents, Michael P. Myers, 59, of Bristol, is facing charges of strangulatio
n, homicide, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and related offenses after being arrested on Thursday.
And, on Friday morning, NBC10 obtained court documents detailing how, police believe, Myers may have been responsible for the death of Dawn Myers, 54, early Thursday at a home along the 1300 block of Wood Street in Bristol.
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On Thursday, at about 8 a.m., a large police presence descended on that block after, sources told NBC10, a woman was killed inside a home there.
Also, at that time, a suspect was taken into police custody, sources said.
On Friday morning, a spokesperson for the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Micheal Myers was the individual who has been arrested and charged for this incident.
‘He did it’
Court documents obtained by NBC10 claim that police were alerted to a slaying at the home by a family member who found the woman’s body inside the home after Myers, allegedly, told him where to find her.
According to court documents, a family member arrived at the home on Thursday morning after being alerted to the scene by an alarm company to find Myers seated in a white Cadillac SUV outside the home.
The family member confronted Myers to ask about the location of the victim, when court documents claim, “Myers mumbled” that she was inside.
At that time, court documents claim, the family member noticed what appeared to be blood on Myers’ face.
The family member then rushed into the home to find Dawn Myers’ body in an upstairs bedroom and when he turned to leave, court documents claim, the family member found Myers standing at the bottom of a nearby stairway with “his arms across the railing with a hand on each side blocking the way down the stairs.”
Court documents claim the family member came down the stairs and Myers attempted to prevent the man from leaving the residence when a fight ensued.
During this fight, the family member struck Myers in the head with a cellphone, pushed his way past him and fled out the front door of the home before immediately calling police, court documents note.
When officers arrived, they found both men standing outside the home and, when confronted by police, court documents claim, the family member held up a hand, pointed at Myers and said “he did it.”
What happened on Wood Street?
At that time, court documents say Myers was taken into custody and found to have a number of “visible injuries.”
Court document say he had, what appeared to be, blood on his wrist and around his face, blood on his lip and in his beard, scratches on his right arm and on his back.
Also, according to court documents, several men’s ties were found tied around the victim’s neck inside the home.
Investigators found, court documents note, that an alarm system on the home was triggered on Thursday morning and a dispatcher had texted the victim’s phone several times around 6 a.m. before, eventually, the alarm company contacted a family member who then traveled to the home to find Myers outside the scene.
Myers is being held in police custody after his bail was denied. He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Friday.
NBC10 is working to learn more.
This is a breaking news story. It will be updated as new information becomes available.
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