{"id":273304,"date":"2026-08-27T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273304\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:08:08","slug":"da-larry-krasner-shares-developments-in-off-duty-officer-shooting-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273304\/","title":{"rendered":"DA Larry Krasner shares developments in off-duty officer shooting \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>District Attorney Larry Krasner will announce developments Thursday<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/shooting-outside-hookah-lounge-73rd-street-elmwood-avenue-southwest-philadelphia\/4448842\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> in the investigation into the fatal shooting of an off-duty Philadelphia police officer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Krasner and members of the DAO&#8217;s Homicide and Non-Fatal Shootings Unit will hold a news conference to share more details about the shooting that killed off-duty officer Alhassane Barry in Southwest Philadelphia on Aug. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>NBC10 will stream the news conference live at 11 a.m. Press play above to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s news conference comes just over a week after Philadelphia police said they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/suspect-identified-off-duty-officer-killed-southwest-philadelphia-shooting\/4450376\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had identified the shooting suspect<\/a>. However, as of Aug. 27, police have not released the suspect&#8217;s name because charges have not been filed.<\/p>\n<p>Barry, 29, was killed in a shooting that happened just before 4 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026, at an after-hours lounge near the intersection of 73rd Street and Elmwood Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/OFF-DUTY-OFFICER-SHOT.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>In that incident, officials said Barry was one of two men shot multiple times. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>A 35-year-old man was also shot multiple times and was treated at a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video obtained by NBC10 showed a marked Philadelphia police vehicle driving near the area around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. Roughly 10 seconds later, someone is seen leaving the after-hours lounge before a fight breaks out.<\/p>\n<p>Shots are then fired, and people are seen running from the area.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they recovered a gun and were reviewing surveillance video as part of their investigation. It was unclear whose gun investigators recovered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/video\/news\/local\/funeral-held-for-officer-killed-in-southwest-philadelphia-shooting-while-off-duty\/4449243\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The funeral for Barry was held on Monday at the Islamic Center of Philadelphia<\/a>, a little more than a quarter-mile from where the shooting happened. A prayer service was scheduled to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"District Attorney Larry Krasner will announce developments Thursday in the investigation into the fatal shooting of an off-duty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-273304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273304","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=273304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}