{"id":262003,"date":"2026-08-09T07:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262003\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T07:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:52:27","slug":"70-year-old-man-dies-after-being-found-shot-inside-crashed-car-in-north-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262003\/","title":{"rendered":"70-year-old man dies after being found shot inside crashed car in North Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7thstreetshootingcrash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A 70-year-old man died Friday, after police found him <a href=\"https:\/\/fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shot in the chest<\/a> inside a crashed car in North <a href=\"https:\/\/fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers made the discovery around 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, on North 7th Street. After finding the crashed BMW, police found the 70-year-old man inside with a gunshot wound in his chest.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">First responders took the man to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators believe the man was shot while he was driving, saying that one bullet hole was found in the driver&#8217;s side door.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers said they think the man may have driven for a short while after he was shot, searching for help, before he crashed.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">So far, police are not sure where exactly the shooting happened. Investigators are working to gather more evidence.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police did not identify the victim, but said he was a local resident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story is from the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A 70-year-old man died Friday, after police found him shot in the chest inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-262003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262003","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=262003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}