{"id":184427,"date":"2026-05-05T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:01:07","slug":"police-say-stabbing-in-drexel-hill-was-fatality-son-kills-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184427\/","title":{"rendered":"Police say stabbing in Drexel Hill was fatality: Son kills mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said Tuesday that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2026\/05\/04\/upper-darby-police-investigating-stabbing-in-drexel-hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the stabbing in Drexel Hill<\/a> was a mother assaulted and killed by her son.<\/p>\n<p>Police were alerted to the 4600 block of State Road about 4:30 Monday afternoon. They didn\u2019t say how, but police radio traffic showed that someone either in the house or looking into it spotted the victim on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt said there appeared to be a domestic incident, and the son picked up a knife and stabbed his mother.<\/p>\n<p>The son was in custody, Bernhardt said. Radio traffic indicated he was stopped by police in Springfield later that afternoon and taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said Tuesday that the stabbing in Drexel Hill was a mother assaulted and killed by her son.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-184427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184427","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=184427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}