{"id":184312,"date":"2026-05-05T13:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184312\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:33:06","slug":"man-shot-while-spray-painting-his-car-in-kensington-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184312\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot while spray-painting his car in Kensington, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man was shot while spray-painting his car outside his house in Kensington.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around midnight on East Monmouth Street, near Emerald Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to witnesses, while the victim was spray-painting his vehicle, the shooter walked up and, for some unknown reason, fired four shots,\u201d said Chief Inspector Scott Small.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old victim was hit in the arm and the lower back. He was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle and is in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter ran away. Police are reviewing private surveillance video to try to identify him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man was shot while spray-painting his car outside his house in Kensington. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,8921,69,71,70,220],"class_list":["post-184312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime","tag-kensington","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184312","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=184312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}