{"id":306884,"date":"2026-10-15T01:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306884\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:40:07","slug":"identities-of-man-killed-in-philly-and-officer-who-shot-him-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306884\/","title":{"rendered":"Identities of man killed in Philly and officer who shot him \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia police officer who was with a SEPTA officer when they shot and killed a man on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway<\/a> have been identified. The man who was killed has also been identified.<\/p>\n

Officers with the Philadelphia Police Department and SEPTA police were called to the area of 21st Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Oct. 9 around 11 a.m. after it was reported that there was a man with a gun, officials said. <\/p>\n

When the responding officers got to the scene, they reported finding a man identified as 60-year-old William Austin pointing a revolver in several directions and at police. <\/p>\n

Officers said that at one point, Austin did put the gun on the ground but picked it back up a minute later and shot one round toward the ground. <\/p>\n

According to the Philadelphia Police Department, officer Eric Lee, 38, and a SEPTA police officer each fired one shot at Austin from their department-issued weapons.<\/p>\n

Each of their shots hit Austin, police said. Austin was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n

At the scene, detectives found a .357 revolver that had three live rounds and three fired casings. <\/p>\n

This incident is under investigation by the Philadelphia Police Department\u2019s Officer-Involved Shooting Investigation Unit, the PPD\u2019s Internal Affairs Bureau and the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Officer Lee is being assigned to administrative duty as the investigation continues, per department policy. <\/p>\n

Police officials say that releasing the name of an officer is part of their department’s policy during ongoing officer-involved shooting investigations. <\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Police Department says they will not be releasing the name of the SEPTA officer involved in this incident. <\/p>\n

NBC10 reached out to SEPTA for comment, we are waiting to hear back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia police officer who was with a SEPTA officer when they shot and killed a man on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-306884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306884","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=306884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}