{"id":103619,"date":"2026-02-03T06:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103619\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:18:06","slug":"driver-shot-dead-in-philadelphia-2-suspects-seen-approaching-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103619\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver shot dead in Philadelphia; 2 suspects seen approaching car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A driver was killed on Monday night after being shot in the head in the Frankford section of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened just before 10 p.m. along the 1700 block of Brill Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Chief Inspector Scott Small, video shows two men approaching the vehicle. One of them is seen firing two gunshots through the passenger-side door window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;After being shot, the vehicle went forward about two car lengths, where it came to rest against a large pile of snow,&#8221; Small said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim, identified as a man in his 20s, was found in the driver&#8217;s seat. He was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspects were only described as wearing all dark clothing. They were last seen fleeing westbound on Brill Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the victim is the owner of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There was no immediate word on a motive for the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to call police at 215-686-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was killed on Monday night after being shot in the head in the Frankford section of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50123,69,71,70,16687],"class_list":{"0":"post-103619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-car-lengths","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-scott-small"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103619","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=103619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}