{"id":269468,"date":"2026-08-21T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:14:10","slug":"woman-shot-in-chest-after-confrontation-with-gunman-in-west-philadelphia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269468\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman shot in chest after confrontation with gunman in West Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man opened fire on a group of people walking in West Philadelphia, shooting a 19-year-old woman twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police were called to 56th Street and Haverford Avenue around 2:30 a.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers found the woman shot in the chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three other people, who were walking with the victim, say they exchanged words with the gunman before he opened fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The gunman took off after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say he was wearing dark clothing and a backpack with a &#8220;teeth&#8221; design on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are looking for him and are talking to witnesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man opened fire on a group of people walking in West Philadelphia, shooting a 19-year-old woman twice.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80503,69,71,70,877],"class_list":["post-269468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-haverford-avenue","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-west-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269468","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=269468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}