{"id":171307,"date":"2026-04-21T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171307\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:01:12","slug":"clifton-heights-subject-hospitalized-after-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171307\/","title":{"rendered":"Clifton Heights subject hospitalized after self-inflicted gunshot wound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man apparently shot himself after dropping his weapon with the safety off early Monday in Clifton Heights, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Police and EMS were dispatched about 3:10 a.m. to the report of a shooting in the 200 block of Cambridge Road.<\/p>\n<p>Dispatch notes indicate the victim was shot in the neck.<\/p>\n<p>Clifton Heights Police Chief Tim Rockenbach said the victim was conscious and speaking when taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is still under investigation. It appears to be an accidental self-inflicted gun shot wound. He apparently dropped the gun with the safety off, Rockenbach said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man apparently shot himself after dropping his weapon with the safety off early Monday in Clifton Heights,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[52443,202,212,182,139,28,69,71,70,210],"class_list":["post-171307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-clifton-heights","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-top-stories-dtd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171307","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=171307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}