{"id":233825,"date":"2026-07-02T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233825\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:34:07","slug":"philadelphia-police-officer-shoots-someone-outside-childrens-hospital-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/233825\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police officer shoots someone outside children&#8217;s hospital; investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia police officer shot someone in an incident outside a children&#8217;s hospital on Thursday morning, sources say.<\/p>\n<p>The Shooting Investigation Group confirmed to CBS News Philadelphia that a shooting was under investigation involving two people shot near St. Christopher&#8217;s Hospital for Children. Sources and police have not said who was shot.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the shooting occurred after police received a call about an armed person threatening people along Erie Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the scene, encountered a person, and at some point, an officer fired their weapon and struck one person.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear whether the incident involves any hospital personnel or others connected to the health facility.<\/p>\n<p>We have crews and Chopper 3 headed to the scene and we&#8217;re working to learn the conditions of the people involved.<\/p>\n<p>A gun was recovered at the scene outside the hospital, police say.<br \/>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 Philadelphia police officer shot someone in an incident outside a children&#8217;s hospital on Thursday morning, sources say.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2245],"class_list":["post-233825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","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\/233825","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=233825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}