{"id":303412,"date":"2026-10-09T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303412\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T23:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:26:10","slug":"breaking-heavy-police-prescence-on-perry-and-east-7th-streets-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303412\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Heavy Police Prescence on Perry and East 7th Streets | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major police standoff is unfolding Friday evening in Erie, with a large law enforcement presence concentrated in the area of East 7th and Perry streets.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"BREAKING: Heavy Police Prescence on Perry and East 7th Streets\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Multiple police units, including the Erie Police Department&#8217;s SWAT team, have responded to the scene, where officers remain actively engaged in an ongoing situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple sources at the scene who spoke with Erie News Now, one woman and man were reportedly shot and killed. The man believed to be responsible allegedly fled into a nearby home following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It has been confirmed that children are present within the home.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the standoff, police have repeatedly used a loudspeaker to instruct the individual inside the residence to come out and surrender.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous officers have established a perimeter around the area as authorities work to bring the situation to a safe resolution. Perry Street and East 7th Street have been blocked off as emergency responders continue their operations.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not yet released confirmed details about the reported shooting or the identity of the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The scene remains active, and Erie News Now will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major police standoff is unfolding Friday evening in Erie, with a large law enforcement presence concentrated in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,1856,40206,220,2579],"class_list":["post-303412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-police-standoff","tag-shooting","tag-swat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303412","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=303412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}