{"id":200176,"date":"2026-05-22T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200176\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:19:07","slug":"man-charged-for-pistol-whipping-philly-corner-store-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200176\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged for pistol-whipping Philly corner store worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Authorities have charged a man they said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/suspect-pistol-whips-grocery-store-worker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">attacked the clerk of a convenience store<\/a> he was robbing last month in North Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Kashon Smith, 27, was arrested in Montgomery County on Thursday for allegedly pistol-whipping a man inside Zay\u2019s Convenience Store at 29th Street and Ridge Avenue in Strawberry Mansion on April 18 and firing a gun through the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, a violent convicted felon, now faces several charges, including aggravated assault, robbery, making terroristic threats, reckless endangerment and theft by unlawful taking. <\/p>\n<p>He remains in jail on $350,000 bail \u2014 but also has a parole detainer because his arrest violates his parole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Authorities have charged a man they said attacked the clerk of a convenience store&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[200,69,71,70,88647,6705],"class_list":["post-200176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-montgomery-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-pistol-whip","tag-strawberry-mansion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200176","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=200176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}