{"id":220764,"date":"2026-06-16T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220764\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:51:09","slug":"shooting-at-wilmington-hospital-in-delaware-under-investigation-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220764\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting at Wilmington Hospital in Delaware under investigation, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shooting at Wilmington Hospital is under investigation Tuesday, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened at the hospital located on the 500 block of West 14th Street, according to police. Chopper 3 was over the scene, where a large police presence could be seen.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chopper-wilmington-hospital-2-people-shot-frame-43385.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"chopper-wilmington-hospital-2-people-shot-frame-43385.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking the public to avoid the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what led to the shooting or if anyone was shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for ChristianaCare said the hospital is currently on lockdown, and the emergency department is on divert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working closely with law enforcement and taking all appropriate steps to ensure the safety of our patients, caregivers and visitors,&#8221; the spokesperson said in part.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shooting at Wilmington Hospital is under investigation Tuesday, police said.\u00a0 The shooting happened at the hospital located&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[916,9240,69,71,70,9205],"class_list":["post-220764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware","tag-new-castle-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-wilmington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220764","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=220764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}