{"id":282082,"date":"2026-09-09T09:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282082\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:20:08","slug":"man-fatally-shot-by-pa-state-police-in-monroe-county-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282082\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fatally shot by Pa. state police in Monroe County identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have identified the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/09\/05\/pa-state-police-fatal-shooting-monroe-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">37-year-old man who was fatally shot by state police<\/a> last week in Monroe County.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Thornton, of Middle Smithfield Township, was pronounced dead about 7:45 p.m. Friday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono, after an incident at a home in the 600 block of Marshalls Creek Road in the township, Monroe County Coroner Thomas A. Yanac said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>His cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds, with the manner homicide.<\/p>\n<p>State police were called to the home just before 6 p.m. for a report of a disturbance there. They fired their weapons, hitting him, according to a state police news release.<\/p>\n<p>The troopers involved were placed on administrative leave, per state police policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have identified the 37-year-old man who was fatally shot by state police last week in Monroe County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,182,2941,139,28,178,180,179,26534],"class_list":["post-282082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-monroe-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-stroudsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282082","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=282082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}