{"id":133591,"date":"2026-03-09T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133591\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:09:06","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-trooper-shot-and-killed-in-a-traffic-stop-authorities-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133591\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania state police trooper shot and killed in a traffic stop, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AJP3TATDGFAZNPKCLQEAYDRIU4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">PAOLI, Pa. \u2014 A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed by a suspect whom he had pulled over in a traffic stop Sunday night, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5BXSREJ5PBEP7BALLEQKRIRMII\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Cpl. Tim O\u2019Connor was killed as he approached the car when the driver fired from inside the vehicle, the state\u2019s acting police commissioner, Lt. Col. George Bivens, told a late Sunday night news conference at Paoli Hospital in Chester County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PAOLI, Pa. \u2014 A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed by a suspect whom he had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25705,31,38,1856,28,30,29,44,61727],"class_list":["post-133591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-automotive-accidents","tag-crime","tag-general-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-u-s-news","tag-us-trooper-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133591","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=133591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}