{"id":280610,"date":"2026-09-07T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280610\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:00:22","slug":"lockdown-on-villanova-universitys-campus-lifted-after-stabbing-on-i-476-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280610\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown on Villanova University&#8217;s campus lifted after stabbing on I-476, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect was arrested after an alleged stabbing on Interstate 476 Sunday, which led to a brief lockdown on Villanova University&#8217;s campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Radnor Township Police said officers assisted Pennsylvania State Police after a suspect fled into Bryn Mawr after a stabbing on the Blue Route.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following a brief search, Radnor officers found the suspect on the 1000 block of East Lancaster Avenue. The suspect was taken into custody without incident, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/stabbing.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"stabbing.jpg \" height=\"307\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A suspect was arrested after an alleged stabbing on Interstate 476 Sunday, which led to a brief lockdown on Villanova University&#8217;s campus.<\/p>\n<p>Radnor Township Police said there&#8217;s no threat to the community at this time. Villanova&#8217;s campus was put on lockdown for roughly an hour out of an abundance of caution, but that has since been lifted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Radnor Township Police didn&#8217;t provide any details about the stabbing, but said: &#8220;Our thoughts are with the victim and their family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lower Merion Township Police said an officer was taken to the hospital to be evaluated, but their condition is unclear at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Radnor Township Police said more details will be released by state police. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect was arrested after an alleged stabbing on Interstate 476 Sunday, which led to a brief lockdown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186,28,33650],"class_list":["post-280610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-pennsylvania","tag-villanova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280610","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=280610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}