{"id":156921,"date":"2026-04-04T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156921\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:32:09","slug":"teenager-in-custody-after-his-3-year-old-nephew-was-shot-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156921\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager in custody after his 3-year-old nephew was shot in the head"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nA 17-year-old boy is in custody following the shooting of his 3-year-old nephew in South Philly this week.\n<\/p>\n

Police were called at around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to the 2100 block of 26th Street, where they found a trail of blood leading to one of the homes, officials\u00a0said<\/a>.\u00a0The toddler was found on the second floor with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head.\n<\/p>\n

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During their search of the house, police located a gun magazine and an inoperable ghost gun stored in a shoebox, but they were unable to locate the firearm used in the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

District Attorney Larry Krasner said during a news conference\u00a0Thursday that the boy, who was not identified, remained in critical condition, and he\u00a0urged the community to assist officials in locating the gun.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cIt is outrageous that any 3-year-old would be harmed this way,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a lot of things that we as a community and we as parents and family members need to do, and they weren\u2019t done here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nThe toddler’s uncle, who was also not identified, was arrested and charged with a felony weapon offense, reckless endangerment, tampering of evidence and obstruction of justice. The teenager was also on juvenile supervision for a prior gun offense at the time of his arrest.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe mother of the 3-year-old was in the home at the time, but prosecutors would not reveal whether she or any other family members were cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy is in custody following the shooting of his 3-year-old nephew in South Philly this week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2694,31,5552,336,69,71,70,220,3220],"class_list":{"0":"post-156921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-firearms","11":"tag-larry-krasner","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-shooting","16":"tag-south-philly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156921","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=156921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}