{"id":252605,"date":"2026-07-26T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252605\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:04:08","slug":"off-duty-philly-cop-charged-in-connection-with-northampton-county-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252605\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty Philly cop charged in connection with Northampton County killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">An off-duty Philadelphia police officer has been charged in connection with a fatal shooting this weekend in Northampton County, according to Pennsylvania State Police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Kenroy Cummings, 25, faces charges of criminal homicide and attempting to elude an officer in connection with the killing of a 27-year-old man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \"><a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/shooting-police-officer-philadelphia-northampton-county-20260725.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/shooting-police-officer-philadelphia-northampton-county-20260725.html\">State police responded shortly before 2 p.m. Friday<\/a> to a domestic incident at a home in the 1200 block of Old Gate Road in Allen Township, about 55 miles northwest of Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Troopers found the man suffering from gunshot wounds, and he was taken to a local hospital where he died. His identity has not been made public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The alleged shooter fled in an orange Kia, which authorities later spotted in Hanover Township. After a brief car pursuit, the suspect returned to the residence and was taken into custody, state police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Cummings did not immediately appear in court records, and it was unclear if he had an attorney. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p type-interstitial text-primary\">\u00bb READ MORE: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-link-type=\"interstitial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/shooting-police-officer-philadelphia-northampton-county-20260725.html\" class=\"no-underline text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\">An off-duty Philly cop is a suspect in a Northampton County homicide<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">A spokesperson for the <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/philadelphia-police-department\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Police Department<\/a> said the department\u2019s Internal Affairs Bureau had been notified and an investigation was initiated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">No additional information was available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min An off-duty Philadelphia police officer has been charged in connection with a fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,107819],"class_list":["post-252605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police-officer-charged-northampton-fatal-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252605","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=252605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}