{"id":150118,"date":"2026-03-27T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150118\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T15:43:07","slug":"secret-service-agent-escorting-jill-biden-accidentally-shoots-himself-at-philadelphia-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150118\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Service agent escorting Jill Biden accidentally shoots himself at Philadelphia International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Secret Service agent accidentally shot himself in the leg while escorting former first lady Jill Biden at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday morning, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Police Department said the incident happened shortly before 8:45 a.m. at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Police said preliminary reports indicate the agent accidentally fired his gun while in an unmarked Chevrolet SUV near the 1 PIA Way access point and the Pennsylvania Tower.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/secret-service-shooting.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"secret-service-shooting.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>The agent was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and placed in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said no one else was injured and there were no disruptions to operations at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Police remain on scene investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Philadelphia reached out to the Secret Service for more information and are waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Secret Service agent accidentally shot himself in the leg while escorting former first lady Jill Biden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67493,28,69,71,1013,70,59925],"class_list":["post-150118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-jill-biden","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-international-airport","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-united-states-secret-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150118","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=150118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}