Philadelphia police are investigating two separate overnight violent incidents that left one man in critical condition and a teenager injured.<\/p>\n
Police said the first incident happened around 11:46 p.m. on Friday, July 17, 2026. Officers responded to West Seymour Street after receiving a report of a person with a gun after a woman called 911 to report that her son had been shot.<\/p>\n
Responding officers found a 17-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to his left hand and secured the shooting scene in a second-floor bedroom, according to police. Officers took the boy to a nearby hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made, and no motive has been determined in this incident. <\/p>\n
Police said the next incident happened around 1:59 a.m. Saturday, July 18, 2026, on the 2800 block of Trenton Avenue. Officers responded to a report of a stabbing and found an adult man suffering from stab wounds.<\/p>\n
Police transported the man to a nearby hospital, where he is now listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made, and no motive has been found, according to police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police are investigating two separate overnight violent incidents that left one man in critical condition and a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[758,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-246745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gun-violence","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246745","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=246745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}