{"id":174892,"date":"2026-04-24T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174892\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:42:09","slug":"man-barricades-himself-in-home-with-kids-inside-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174892\/","title":{"rendered":"Man barricades himself in home with kids inside, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man barricaded himself in a Northeast Philadelphia home with children inside for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>It started around 3 a.m. on Friday. Philadelphia police received a call about a man with a gun, and they eventually declared a barricade. <\/p>\n<p>They closed off two and a half blocks of Shelmire Avenue in Mayfair, between Frankford Avenue and Walker Street, for more than three hours.<\/p>\n<p>During the standoff, three children were rescued from the house.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, a man emerged from a house on the street with a baby in his arms and surrendered to SWAT officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was crazy to see all this commotion going on, and I just hope the neighborhood gets a little better,\u201d said Waldemar Delgado, who lives up the street.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not said what led to the barricade, or whether any charges will be filed against the detained man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man barricaded himself in a Northeast Philadelphia home with children inside for several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78381,31,53050,2327,69,71,70,18598],"class_list":{"0":"post-174892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-barricade","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-mayfair","11":"tag-northeast-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-standoff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174892","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=174892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}