{"id":134203,"date":"2026-03-10T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134203\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:42:19","slug":"pennsylvania-state-trooper-fatally-shot-during-traffic-stop-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134203\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Trooper Fatally Shot During Traffic Stop | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Police Car Lights Lightbar Crime\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Unsplash<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Trooper Timothy O\u2019Connor had been fatally shot just after 8 p.m. on Sunday night. Cpl. O\u2019Connor had been performing a routine traffic stop for an erratic driver according to officials when the male driver shot him in West Caln Township.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor leaves behind a wife and daughter and had enlisted in the state police in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unsplash Pennsylvania State Trooper Timothy O\u2019Connor had been fatally shot just after 8 p.m. on Sunday night. Cpl.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,14001,62005],"class_list":["post-134203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-trooper","tag-timothy-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134203","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=134203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}