{"id":121371,"date":"2026-01-17T01:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121371\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T01:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T01:17:23","slug":"police-officer-killed-in-shooting-at-camp-lejeune-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121371\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer killed in shooting at Camp Lejeune, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/01\/15\/sources-jacksonville-police-officer-killed-camp-lejeune-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WITN<\/a>\/Gray News) \u2013 An officer with the Jacksonville Police Department in North Carolina was shot and killed earlier this week by security officers at Camp Lejeune. <\/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 close to the victim identified him as Philip Chiorino, 31, who lived a couple of blocks from the school. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Officer Philip Chiorino\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768612643_741_3WALX2P7WVBSNASR2AKHYSRH6M.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"553\" \/>Officer Philip Chiorino(Jacksonville Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville Police Chief Jarad Phelps confirmed an officer with the department was killed, but he did not disclose the identity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAny loss of a member of the department hurts,\u201d Phelps told WITN in a phone call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Camp Lejeune and NCIS have not yet released more information about the deadly shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a social media post from the police department, Chiorino joined Jacksonville police in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sources said he was a former Marine firearms instructor who served a couple of tours in Afghanistan.<\/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 via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN\/Gray News) \u2013 An officer with the Jacksonville Police Department in North Carolina was shot and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14572,116,118,117,15668,15284,1854,60748,60560,4480],"class_list":["post-121371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-camp-lejeune","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-police-department","tag-marines","tag-north-carolina","tag-police-officer-shot-and-killed","tag-tarawa-terrace-elementary-school","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121371","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=121371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}