{"id":304664,"date":"2026-10-11T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304664\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:50:10","slug":"eric-lewis-charged-with-murder-for-fatally-shooting-philadelphia-police-officer-shane-seiber-wounding-other-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304664\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Lewis charged with murder for fatally shooting Philadelphia police officer Shane Seiber, wounding other officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Eric Lewis, 35, was charged with murder for fatally shooting Philadelphia police officer Shane Seiber and seriously injuring another officer during an <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/crime\/police-officers-shot-west-philadelphia-20261010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/crime\/police-officers-shot-west-philadelphia-20261010.html\">encounter outside his <\/a><a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/west-philly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Philadelphia<\/a> home early Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Lewis appeared early Sunday morning in Municipal Court, where he was also charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, assault of a law enforcement officer, and a host of additional crimes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Lewis is being held at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility without bail, court records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Court records show Lewis is represented by the Defender Association of Philadelphia. Keisha Hudson, chief defender, declined to comment on the case Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">On Saturday, District Attorney <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/larry-krasner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Krasner<\/a> said Lewis\u2019 actions amounted to a \u201cbrazen and disturbing act of violence\u201d against law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Krasner said his office would seek full accountability for Seiber\u2019s killer, and that the investigation into the <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia\/officer-shane-seiber-west-philadelphia-shooting-20261010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia\/officer-shane-seiber-west-philadelphia-shooting-20261010.html\">slaying of the 40-year-old father of two<\/a> \u2014 along with the shooting of a 33-year-old officer who remains hospitalized at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in stable but serious condition \u2014 remained in its early stages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Police have not publicly identified that officer. The department generally withholds such information in the early stages of an investigation to protect officer and family privacy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Police said the early morning ambush outside Lewis\u2019 home on the 100 block of North 52nd Street began when Seiber and the 33-year-old officer arrived about 12:17 a.m. for a report of a man with a gun on his porch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">As the officers approached the home, Lewis opened fire, striking them multiple times, according to police. Seiber suffered three gunshot wounds, while the other officer was struck 12 times, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Lewis stole one of the officers\u2019 firearms during the incident, forcing a standoff as law enforcement officers rushed to the scene, police said. SWAT units secured the area, and Lewis fired shots at responding police, they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">No other officers were injured, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">At one point during the gunfire, they said, Lewis climbed a tree next to the home. But police spotted him there and ordered him to surrender, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Police recovered two handguns and a shotgun during his arrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Two of Lewis\u2019 siblings declined Sunday morning to speak with a reporter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Eric Lewis, 35, was charged with murder for fatally shooting Philadelphia police officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[125102,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-304664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-eric-lewis-shane-seiber-philadelphia-philly-police-shooting","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304664","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=304664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}