{"id":219280,"date":"2026-06-15T00:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219280\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T00:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:56:40","slug":"3-officers-wounded-suspect-dead-in-philadelphia-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219280\/","title":{"rendered":"3 officers wounded, suspect dead in Philadelphia shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three officers were injured and the suspect was killed in a shooting in Philadelphia late Saturday night. File Photo by Justin Lane\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n

June 14 (UPI) — Three officers were injured and the suspect was killed in a shooting in Philadelphia late Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Officers were called to reports of shots fired<\/a> at a vehicle in West Philadelphia at about 10:30 p.m. EDT. The officers “engaged” with a 57-year-old Eric Franks, who they told to stand down before Franks allegedly drew a firearm and fired at them.\n<\/p>\n

Gunfire was exchanged after Franks allegedly shoved an officer and two officers attempted to detain him. It was at that point that he allegedly drew a firearm.<\/p>\n

Franks was killed at the scene, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said during a press conference<\/a>. Four officers discharged their weapons.<\/p>\n

“For a period of time, police personnel are trying to explain the situation to Franks in regard to establishing a crime scene, and at that point, Franks becomes increasingly agitated,” the Philadelphia Police Department said in a press release on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The injured officers were taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. One officer suffered a gunshot wound in the face while the others were shot in the hip and leg. All are in stable condition.\n<\/p>\n

When officers arrived on the scene they discovered a black Cadillac that had been hit by gunfire. While officers were canvassing for evidence, Franks allegedly approached them.<\/p>\n

An attorney for Franks’ family said<\/a> he was a former Philadelphia firefighter and Marine veteran. He was also married, had two children and owned several businesses.<\/p>\n

Police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three officers were injured and the suspect was killed in a shooting in Philadelphia late Saturday night. File…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1563,69,71,70,295,1562],"class_list":["post-219280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-law-and-crime","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-top-stories","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219280","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=219280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}