{"id":140527,"date":"2026-03-17T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140527\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:08:07","slug":"viewing-for-pennsylvania-state-police-corporal-who-was-killed-in-the-line-of-duty-set-for-tuesday-southeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140527\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewing for Pennsylvania State Police Corporal who was killed in the line of duty set for Tuesday | Southeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A viewing for the Pennsylvania State Police Corporal who was killed in the line of duty earlier this month is set for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The viewing for Cpl. Timothy O&#8217;Connor will be held 4:30 p.m. at St. Joseph&#8217;s Church in Downingtown.<\/p>\n<p>A funeral service will take place Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor was shot and killed while responding to a report of an erratic driver in West Caln Township.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he stopped the vehicle at Route 10 and Michael Road, and within seconds of approaching it, Jesse Elks opened fire, killing O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Elks then took his own life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A viewing for the Pennsylvania State Police Corporal who was killed in the line of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1224,8837,61614],"class_list":["post-140527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-st-joseph","tag-west-caln-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140527","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=140527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}