{"id":243455,"date":"2026-07-14T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243455\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:00:10","slug":"contractor-fatally-shot-in-philadelphia-was-affiliated-with-transnational-criminal-organization-dhs-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243455\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractor fatally shot in Philadelphia was affiliated with transnational criminal organization, DHS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/construction-worker-killed-philadelphia-shooting-roxborough\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">contractor who was fatally shot<\/a> in Philadelphia&#8217;s Roxborough neighborhood last week was affiliated with a transnational criminal organization, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Salis Hanrahan, 20, was shot and killed by 75-year-old George Barr inside a home on the 400 block of Ripka Street shortly before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to police. Hanrahan was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to DHS, Hanrahan was from the United Kingdom and entered the country illegally on an unknown date and location.&#8221; He was allegedly affiliated with &#8220;The Traveling Conman Fraud Group&#8221; and was denied an Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA).<\/p>\n<p>DHS said federal officials never encountered Hanrahan.<\/p>\n<p>Barr was charged with murder and other offenses in connection with Hanrahan&#8217;s death, police said. A gun was also found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A contractor who was fatally shot in Philadelphia&#8217;s Roxborough neighborhood last week was affiliated with a transnational criminal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,220,24015],"class_list":["post-243455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shooting","tag-united-states-department-of-homeland-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243455","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=243455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}