{"id":209904,"date":"2026-06-03T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209904\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:32:11","slug":"police-investigating-shooting-in-west-scranton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209904\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating shooting in West Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are on the scene of a shooting in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are now searching for a 70-year-old man in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers have closed the 300 and 400 blocks of 3rd Avenue to traffic as they investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 are on the scene of a shooting in Scranton. Authorities say one man suffered a gunshot wound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3907,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-209904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-gunshot-wound","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209904","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=209904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}