{"id":220811,"date":"2026-06-16T21:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220811\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:40:07","slug":"philadelphia-police-officer-shot-in-wynnefield-released-from-hospital-1-remains-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220811\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police officer shot in Wynnefield released from hospital, 1 remains hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-police-officers-shot-wynnefield\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police officers who was shot<\/a> in the city&#8217;s Wynnefield section over the weekend was released from the hospital Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old officer who was released has been with the department for one year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-police-sergeant-shot-released-wynnefield\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sergeant<\/a> who was also shot in the incident was released Monday afternoon, and another officer remains hospitalized. All three were treated at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of members of the Philadelphia Police Department were at the hospital to show their support when the officer emerged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All three officers were shot while investigating a reported shooting at 54th and Arlington streets Saturday night. During the investigation, a 57-year-old man, who has been identified as Eric Franks, confronted them and shoved the sergeant. Franks then allegedly pulled out a gun and fired at officers, who fired back. Franks, who had a license to carry a firearm, was struck multiple times and died, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People who knew Franks said this is out of character for him and they hope to see a full investigation into the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the shooting remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Philadelphia police officers who was shot in the city&#8217;s Wynnefield section over the weekend was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2245,623,877],"class_list":["post-220811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police","tag-police-shooting","tag-west-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220811","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=220811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}