{"id":123018,"date":"2026-02-25T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123018\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:22:07","slug":"police-investigate-possible-shooting-in-lower-merion-twp-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123018\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate possible shooting in Lower Merion Twp., Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are investigating following reports of a possible shooting early Wednesday morning in Lower Merion Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials have taped off several blocks along Old Lancaster Road between City Avenue and Upland Road, just one block from the campus of St. Joseph&#8217;s University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They have also set up tents along Old Lancaster Road next to the Edgehill Road Apartments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have been shining flashlights and searching under and between cars near the apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is an SUV that investigators have set up another tent over, and several evidence markers can be seen on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Initial reports of a possible shooting and barricade situation were reported at the apartment complex around 3:45 a.m., but exact details about what is happening have not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a breaking news story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating following reports of a possible shooting early Wednesday morning in Lower Merion Township. Officials have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[57830,57831,183,185,184,186,57829],"class_list":["post-123018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-edgehill-road","tag-initial-reports","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-upland-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123018","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=123018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}