{"id":306528,"date":"2026-10-14T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306528\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:28:15","slug":"plaque-unveiled-3-years-after-philly-police-officer-shot-and-killed-in-the-line-of-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306528\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaque unveiled 3 years after Philly police officer shot and killed in the line of duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Three years and a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/topic\/richard-mendez\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police Sgt. Richard Mendez<\/a> was shot in the line of duty at Philadelphia International Airport, a new bronze plaque in the parking garage where he died now hangs in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>His widow, Alex Carrero-Mendez, spoke at the plaque unveiling. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes just being in your own space, alone. You feel like he has been forgotten,\u201d she said. \u201cBut then you guys show me that he hasn\u2019t; with your presence, you are always there for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work matters and his life matters, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s so important that we say we will never forget,\u201d said Commissioner Kevin Bethel. <\/p>\n<p>Sitting in support of the Mendez family were the widows of other fallen police officers. At the top of their minds was a woman who will now join them: the widow of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/funeral-services-released-shane-seiber\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shane Seiber<\/a>, who was shot and killed over the weekend in West Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey turn their pain into purpose by supporting each other,\u201d Bethel added. \u201cWe\u2019ll get through this together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Three years and a day after Police Sgt. Richard Mendez was shot in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62016,69,71,70,595,24880,124987],"class_list":["post-306528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-officer-shot","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police-department","tag-richard-mendez","tag-shane-seiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306528","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=306528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}