{"id":223299,"date":"2026-06-19T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223299\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:25:09","slug":"3rd-philadelphia-police-officer-injured-in-wynnefield-shooting-released-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223299\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Philadelphia police officer injured in Wynnefield shooting released from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third Philadelphia police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-police-officers-shot-wynnefield\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">officer injured in a shooting in the Wynnefield section of the city<\/a> this week is now being released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The officer exited Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on Friday afternoon to applause and a gathering of fellow officers.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened Saturday night at 54th and Arlington streets.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the officers were responding to a shooting scene in the area when they encountered a man who began arguing with them and pulled out a gun, before a firefight ensued.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Franks, 57, was pronounced dead after the shooting. Franks was a local business owner and a retired Philadelphia firefighter and veteran. People who knew Franks said the incident was out of character for him and they hope to see a full investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A sergeant who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-police-sergeant-shot-released-wynnefield\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hospitalized in the shooting was released Monday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/wynnefield-philadelphia-police-shooting-officer-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an officer was released Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third Philadelphia police officer injured in a shooting in the Wynnefield section of the city this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,2245],"class_list":["post-223299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223299","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=223299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}