{"id":239160,"date":"2026-07-09T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239160\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:48:08","slug":"police-investigating-after-shooting-in-new-kensington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239160\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating after shooting in New Kensington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in New Kensington are investigating after a man was shot Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the 1100 block of Fifth Avenue around 9:15 p.m. where they were told at 35-year-old man has been shot in the area and was taken to a local hospital in a private vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed victim was last listed in stable condition, but remains in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified the shooter as Black man between 220-230 pound, standing around 6-foot-1 with dreadlocks and glasses. He was last seen leaving the area on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence of the shooting was found near the Valley Royal Court Apartments.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to call New Kensington Police at 724-339-7533.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in New Kensington are investigating after a man was shot Tuesday night. Officers responded to the 1100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1021,17799,73,75,74,220],"class_list":["post-239160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-investigation","tag-new-kensington","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239160","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=239160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}