{"id":173471,"date":"2026-04-23T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:57:07","slug":"suspect-shot-by-police-in-chester-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173471\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect shot by police in Chester, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An investigation is underway after a police officer shot a suspect Wednesday night in Chester, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident happened around 8:33 p.m. near 9th and Walnut streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities told Action News that at least one officer fired a weapon, striking the suspect, who is hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There was no immediate word on what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said no officers were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Further details have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stay with Action News as we continue to follow this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a police officer shot a suspect Wednesday night in Chester, Pennsylvania. The incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[900,211,5993,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-173471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-action-news","9":"tag-chester","10":"tag-critical-condition","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173471","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=173471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}