{"id":173816,"date":"2026-04-23T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173816\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:54:09","slug":"man-struck-with-handgun-during-confrontation-in-north-philadelphia-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173816\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck with handgun during confrontation in North Philadelphia market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bbu36s7nojy8azuh.jpg\" alt=\"Man struck with handgun during confrontation in North Philadelphia market\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Police are searching for a man accused of striking a shopper with a handgun during a confrontation inside a Philadelphia market.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Investigators say the assault happened inside a grocery store on the 7900 block of Ridge Avenue on April 18.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Surveillance video shows the unidentified suspect enter the store and strike a man standing at the register in the head with a gun.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pistolwhippedmarket.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">He is believed to be a Black man between 30\u201340-years-old, standing around 5&#8217;8&#8243; and 5&#8217;10&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The suspect strikes the victim two more times, video shows. One of the blows caused the gun to fire a round into the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The suspect and the victim argued outside the store until police say the suspect got into a silver Ford Crown Victoria and left the area.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police are asking for the public&#8217;s help to identify the suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">He is believed to be a Black man between 30\u201340-years-old, standing around 5&#8217;8&#8243; and 5&#8217;10&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Anyone with information about the suspect or the incident should reach out to the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Police are searching for a man accused of striking a shopper with a handgun during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-173816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173816","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=173816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}