{"id":261483,"date":"2026-08-08T05:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261483\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:56:53","slug":"man-70-dies-after-being-found-shot-inside-crashed-bmw-in-philadelphias-hunting-park-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261483\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 70, dies after being found shot inside crashed BMW in Philadelphia&#8217;s Hunting Park section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, August 8, 2026 3:51AM<\/p>\n<p>Man, 70, dies after being found shot inside crashed BMW<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A 70-year-old man has died after he was found shot inside a vehicle following a crash in Philadelphia&#8217;s Hunting Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers responded around 6:30 p.m. Friday to the 4300 block of North 7th Street, where they found the victim inside a gray BMW that had crashed into a parked vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators believe the man was driving when he was shot once in the chest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19644124_080726-wpvi-driver-shot-hunting-park-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It looks like he was shot while driving the vehicle and then continued driving, possibly to try to get help, and eventually crashed into a vehicle,&#8221; Philadelphia Police Inspector D F Pace said. &#8220;There was no one else in the vehicle. We have yet to locate a crime scene at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pace said preliminary evidence indicates the victim was shot only once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The man has not been identified. Authorities said he was a Philadelphia resident and the registered owner of the BMW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Philadelphia police by calling 215-686-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, August 8, 2026 3:51AM Man, 70, dies after being found shot inside crashed BMW WPVI PHILADELPHIA (WPVI)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[110768,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-261483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-110768","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261483","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=261483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}