{"id":266155,"date":"2026-08-16T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266155\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:28:16","slug":"father-daughter-found-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide-in-port-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266155\/","title":{"rendered":"Father, daughter found dead in apparent murder-suicide in Port Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A man and woman believed to be a father and daughter were found dead Saturday afternoon in a Port Richmond home in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Philadelphia police responded to a home on the 2800 block of Mercer Street around 1:30 p.m. for a reported shooting. Officers found a man and woman suffering from gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said their preliminary investigation indicates the shooting was domestic in nature and involved a father and daughter. Investigators are treating the deaths as an apparent murder-suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No one else was inside the home at the time of the shooting, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The deaths left neighbors in the tight-knit neighborhood shaken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It&#8217;s shocking, surprising, very much so,&#8221; one anonymous neighbor said. &#8220;This little area right here is very quiet, so, very family oriented. Horrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The road was closed in both directions as detectives with the homicide unit investigated. Crime scene investigators were seen entering and leaving the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police have not released the identities of the man and woman or provided additional details about what led to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A man and woman believed to be a father and daughter were found dead Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112330,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-266155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-112330","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266155","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=266155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}