{"id":266412,"date":"2026-08-16T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266412\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:18:09","slug":"off-duty-philadelphia-police-officer-killed-in-shooting-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266412\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty Philadelphia police officer killed in shooting, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty Philadelphia police officer was killed in a shooting in the city&#8217;s Eastwick neighborhood Sunday morning, Commissioner Kevin Bethel said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened on Elmwood Avenue near 73rd Street. The officer was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in extremely critical condition and later died, Bethel said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to ask the community for their prayers, we continue to pray for his family,&#8221; Bethel said. The officer&#8217;s family was at his bedside in his final moments, according to Bethel.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/elmwood-avenue-officer-shooting-philadelphia-police.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"elmwood-avenue-officer-shooting-philadelphia-police.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>The officer has not been publicly identified. He is 29 years old and a member of the department&#8217;s 12th District.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still working to learn more on what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>First responders were on the scene and Elmwood Avenue was cordoned off with yellow caution tape.<\/p>\n<p>Bethel said anyone with information should call 215-686-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty Philadelphia police officer was killed in a shooting in the city&#8217;s Eastwick neighborhood Sunday morning, Commissioner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-266412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266412","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=266412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}