{"id":119963,"date":"2026-01-16T01:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119963\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:21:44","slug":"jacksonville-police-officer-killed-in-camp-lejeune-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119963\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police officer killed in Camp Lejeune shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A man shot and killed earlier this week by Camp Lejeune security officers was a Jacksonville police officer, according to multiple sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon near Tarawa Terrace Elementary School on the base. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sources say Officer Philip Chiorino was killed in the officer-involved shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Online records say the 31-year-old Chiorino lived on Tarawa Terrace, a couple of blocks from the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a social media post from the police department, Chiorino joined Jacksonville police in August of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sources say he was a former Marine firearms instructor who served a couple of tours in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Camp Lejeune and NCIS have so far released very little information about the deadly shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAny loss of a member of the department hurts,\u201d said Jacksonville Police Chief Jarad Phelps, while on the phone with WITN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chiorino is in a JPD social media video from last fall where he said he was a School Resource Officer at Jacksonville Commons Elementary School and was excited for a great year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department said it cannot comment further because the investigation is outside its jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A man shot and killed earlier this week by Camp Lejeune security officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[60167,116,118,117,60168,60170,132,215,60169,29743],"class_list":{"0":"post-119963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-camp","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-lejeune","13":"tag-philip-chiorino","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-shooting","16":"tag-tarawa","17":"tag-terrace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}