{"id":308994,"date":"2026-10-18T00:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308994\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T00:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:18:20","slug":"man-shot-and-killed-in-southwest-philadelphia-arrest-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308994\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot and killed in Southwest Philadelphia; arrest made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man shot and killed in Southwest Philadelphia; arrest made<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792282700_79_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 16, 2026 8:59PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; A man is dead after a shooting in Southwest Philadelphia on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident happened around 2:40 p.m. on the 6200 block of Lindbergh Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said a 41-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the head. He was transported to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said an arrest was made, and officers recovered a weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police have not released details about what led to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Philadelphia police by calling 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man shot and killed in Southwest Philadelphia; arrest made WPVI Friday, October 16, 2026 8:59PM PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[126594,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-308994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-126594","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308994","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=308994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}