{"id":184320,"date":"2026-05-05T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184320\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:45:08","slug":"man-shot-and-killed-near-pool-table-in-philadelphia-bar-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184320\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot and killed near pool table in Philadelphia bar, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was shot multiple times inside a Philadelphia bar Monday night, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Around 11:30 p.m., officers were called out to the Uptown Cafe, at Stenton and Mt. Pleasant Avenues in East Mount Airy, for a reported shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, near a pool table, police found a 38-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds. They rushed him to Jefferson Einstein Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/east-mount-airy-shooting-philadelphia-uptown-cafe.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"east-mount-airy-shooting-philadelphia-uptown-cafe.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, police identified the man as Kenneth Singleton, of the Lawndale section of Northeast Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found seven spent shell casings from a semi-automatic weapon and a broken pool stick at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are investigating whether there could have been a fight that escalated to the shooting, but right now the motive is not clear.<\/p>\n<p>Police have no description of a shooter or shooters, but are reviewing surveillance video from the bar and interviewing witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The video captured several people running from the bar after the shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was shot multiple times inside a Philadelphia bar Monday night, according to police. Around 11:30 p.m.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,12643,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-184320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime","tag-east-mount-airy","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184320","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=184320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}