{"id":209823,"date":"2026-06-03T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209823\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:02:09","slug":"police-investigating-shooting-in-west-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209823\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating shooting in West Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have blocked off the 300 and 400 blocks of 3rd Avenue in the city&#8217;s west side.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Police are on the scene of a shooting in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say one man suffered a gunshot wound to the arm along the 300 block of Fellows Street just after 2 p.m. Wednesday. He was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police are now searching for a 70-year-old man in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Officers have closed the 300 and 400 blocks of 3rd Avenue to traffic as they investigate.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f30507a0-e720-456e-ba67-1d1d42faad25_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f42da160-b549-43fc-bfe7-c6eeaef09755_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Newswatch 16 has a crew on the scene and will update with more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have blocked off the 300 and 400 blocks of 3rd Avenue in the city&#8217;s west side. SCRANTON,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-209823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209823","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=209823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}