{"id":100218,"date":"2026-01-29T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100218\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:56:08","slug":"parking-spot-dispute-leads-to-fight-gunfire-in-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100218\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking spot dispute leads to fight, gunfire in Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was taken to the hospital after a dispute over a saved parking spot in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington neighborhood ended with gunfire and a brawl on Thursday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1:20 p.m., a 45-year-old man got into an altercation with a 21-year-old man over the parking spot, Philadelphia police said. The 45-year-old man took out a knife during the fight, and the 21-year-old man pulled out a gun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The men put their weapons down and continued fighting. Then, according to police, a 36-year-old woman got involved, taking the gun from a vehicle and hitting the 45-year-old with it. She fired the gun into the ground, but no one was hit, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video obtained from a nearby business shows the fight unfolding on the street, in the snow and on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old man identified the other two people at the scene before being taken to the hospital with a head injury and bleeding, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is in stable condition, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the 21-year-old man and 36-year-old woman were arrested at the scene, and all of the weapons were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was taken to the hospital after a dispute over a saved parking spot in Philadelphia&#8217;s Kensington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8921,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-100218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-kensington","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}