{"id":219090,"date":"2026-06-14T17:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219090\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:43:15","slug":"3-philadelphia-police-officers-shot-in-wynnefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219090\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Philadelphia police officers shot in Wynnefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/3-philadelphia-police-officers-shot-citys-wynnefield-section-suspect-dead\/19292478\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6abc<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Three Philadelphia police officers were wounded and a suspect was killed during a shooting in the city\u2019s Wynnefield neighborhood late Saturday night.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sources say the suspect who was killed is a retired firefighter.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident unfolded shortly after 10:30 p.m. at the intersection of 54th and Arlington streets, where officers had responded to reports of a vehicle that had been struck by gunfire.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said officers encountered a 57-year-old man at the scene who became involved in an altercation with them.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to investigators, officers ordered the man to comply with commands, but he refused.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Surveillance video from city street cameras shows the man confronting several officers.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The footage appears to show the suspect getting in the officers\u2019 faces and shoving one officer before being pushed away from the group and into the street.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the man then pulled a firearm, leading to an exchange of gunfire.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Three officers were struck during the shooting. Authorities said one officer was shot in the face, another in the hip and a third in the leg.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">All three were taken to a hospital and were stable as of Sunday morning.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story originally appeared on 6abc. Three Philadelphia police officers were wounded and a suspect was killed during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2153,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-219090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-6abc","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219090","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=219090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}