SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 39-year-old Scranton man died after a shooting in West Scranton Friday night, and authorities are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.<\/p>\n
Lackawanna County Coroner Timothy Rowland said the victim died at approximately 8:30 p.m. Friday in the emergency department at Geisinger Community Medical Center.<\/p>\n
According to the coroner, the man was transported to the hospital by emergency medical personnel after he was found unconscious in the 300 block of North Hyde Park Avenue.<\/p>\n
The victim’s identity has not yet been released pending notification of family members.<\/p>\n
Rowland said the death is being investigated as a suspicious death, and an autopsy is scheduled for Monday to determine the exact cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n
Scranton police and the Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the shooting.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the district attorney’s office told WNEP the incident was isolated and said there is no ongoing threat to the public. Authorities have not announced any arrests or said whether a suspect has been identified.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Scranton police or the Lackawanna County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A 39-year-old Scranton man died after a shooting in West Scranton Friday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-248333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248333","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=248333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}