{"id":200841,"date":"2026-05-23T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200841\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:05:08","slug":"philadelphia-police-officer-shoots-man-in-kensington-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200841\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police officer shoots man in Kensington, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia police officer shot a man after a confrontation in Kensington on Saturday morning, sources say.<\/p>\n<p>The incident unfolded in the area of Kensington Avenue, D Street and Somerset Street.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/philadelphia-shooting-kensington-d-street.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"philadelphia-shooting-kensington-d-street.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Officers could be seen investigating at a corner store at the intersection. Kensington Avenue was blocked off with police tape and patrol vehicles while the investigation was underway.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to police for more on the man&#8217;s condition and if anyone else was injured.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia police officer shot a man after a confrontation in Kensington on Saturday morning, sources say. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8921,28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-200841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-kensington","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200841","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=200841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}