{"id":193542,"date":"2026-05-15T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193542\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:30:25","slug":"probe-of-accidental-shooting-death-of-upper-darby-middle-school-student-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193542\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe of accidental shooting death of Upper Darby middle school student continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upper Darby police continue the investigation into the apparent accidental<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2026\/05\/14\/upper-darby-police-investigate-shooting-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> gunshot death<\/a> of a 14-year-old middle school student.<\/p>\n<p>Police and EMS were called Thursday about 1:40 p.m. to the 100 block of Springton Road for a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt said the victim was one of four juveniles in a bedroom of the house where a handgun was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>A single shot was fired, striking the girl in the head. She was rushed to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, however she was declared deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The three other juveniles fled the home, Bernhardt said.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent stressed the need to safely lock weapons. Police have free gun locks for those who need them.<\/p>\n<p>Bernhardt also said youth need to realize, they don\u2019t get a \u201credo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish kids would realize the danger of a firearm, and here is an incident no one can take back. You don\u2019t get a redo. Someone lost their life, and three other juveniles are going to have to live with this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bernhardt said the investigation continues. Police are interviewing the other juveniles present to determine what occurred.<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been filed as of Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upper Darby police continue the investigation into the apparent accidental gunshot death of a 14-year-old middle school student.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5903,"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-193542","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\/193542","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=193542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}