{"id":247885,"date":"2026-07-20T19:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247885\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:11:16","slug":"innocent-bystander-shot-in-west-philadelphia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247885\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocent bystander shot in West Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An innocent bystander is recovering after a gunman opened fire in West Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dozens of crime scene markers littered the road at 55th Street and Baltimore Avenue Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the shooter was aiming for a man who was leaving a corner store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man, who was down the street from the scene, was struck instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No one else was hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An innocent bystander is recovering after a gunman opened fire in West Philadelphia. Dozens of crime scene markers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[105916,8567,92956,69,71,70,877],"class_list":["post-247885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-55th-street","tag-crime-scene","tag-innocent-bystander","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-west-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247885","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=247885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}