{"id":264442,"date":"2026-08-13T06:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264442\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:36:20","slug":"police-searching-for-man-accused-of-shooting-a-philadelphia-couple-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264442\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for man accused of shooting a Philadelphia couple over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Philadelphia police are searching for a man they say walked up to a couple sitting on a porch and opened fire late Sunday night, <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/crime\/six-people-killed-over-weekend-philadelphia-20260810.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/crime\/six-people-killed-over-weekend-philadelphia-20260810.html\">killing the woman<\/a> and injuring the man before fleeing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Shariff Perry, 35, is charged in an arrest warrant with murder, possession an illegal firearm, and related crimes in the killing of Michelle Wilson, 61, and shooting of her 67-year-old husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Surveillance video from a business on Sunday captured a man wearing a hat and surgical mask \u2014 who police now say is Perry \u2014 walking to Wilson\u2019s home in the 2800 block of North 24th Street in <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/strawberry-mansion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strawberry Mansion<\/a>. There, the video showed, the man pulled out a gun and fired repeatedly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Wilson was pronounced dead at <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/temple-university\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Temple University<\/a> Hospital shortly after the 11:49 p.m. shooting. Her husband was also taken to the hospital, where, police said, he was stable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Police described Perry as a male, 5-feet-8-inches tall and weighing 170 pounds. Anyone with information about Perry or the killing is asked to contact the department\u2019s homicide unit at 215-686-3334 or its tip line at 215-686-TIPS. A $20,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to Perry\u2019s arrest and conviction, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Staff writer Ellie Rushing contributed to this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Philadelphia police are searching for a man they say walked up to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,111651],"class_list":["post-264442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police-seek-man-accused-killing-couple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264442","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=264442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}