{"id":309806,"date":"2026-10-19T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309806\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:10:17","slug":"community-packs-bensalems-eddington-house-to-support-officer-shane-seibers-family-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309806\/","title":{"rendered":"Community packs Bensalem\u2019s Eddington House to support Officer Shane Seiber\u2019s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eddington House in Bensalem held a packed fundraiser Monday to support the family of Philadelphia Police Officer Shane Seiber, who was killed in the line of duty early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accused shooter, 35-year-old Eric Lewis, faces more than 75 charges including homicide of a law enforcement officer and is due in court Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officer Seiber&#8217;s partner, who has not been identified, remains in stable condition after they were shot 12 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Eddington House, known to locals as The E-House, filled with customers for a special dine-and-donate event supporting the family of Philadelphia police officer Shane Seiber, who was <a data-ylk=\"slk:killed early Saturday morning.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/2-philadelphia-officers-shot-west-philadelphia-both-surgery\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">killed early Saturday morning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Seiber&#8217;s partner, a 33-year-old officer, was shot 12 times and remains hospitalized in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Community response quickly follows officer&#8217;s death<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Community members say they moved into action after learning that Seiber lived in Bensalem and that his children attended local schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We saw the news and then we realized that he was a local Bensalem resident and his children attend our schools so Sunday when we got that information the wheels went into motion,&#8221; said Rita Marlow, fundraising coordinator at The Eddington House.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Officer Shane Seiber (Philadelphia Police Department)&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/wtxf_fox_local_articles_571\/dd5f2bcbd758eb8c50c13c0b7b45bca4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Officer Shane Seiber (Philadelphia Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The E-House dedicated 20 percent of sales, along with direct donation collections, to Seiber&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;20% of the sales will go directly back to the family and we also have some donation collections here,&#8221; said Marlow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Attendance at the event was high, with a strong presence from both school families and local police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve had a very large turnout. One of the children go to a neighborhood school so a lot of the school family is here, a lot of the Bensalem Police have come by, I do believe there is some Philadelphia Police that are here,&#8221; said Laura Eder, front of the house manager at The E-House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eder added, &#8220;Every single day, they get up, they put the uniform on, they go to work, not knowing what the ending is going to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michael Lorenzo, president of the Parent Teacher Organization for Struble Elementary, said his son is a classmate of Seiber&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;My son and her son went to pre-school together so we had field trips with them for that and knowing them for several years. I didn&#8217;t get to know Shane as well, he was constantly at work,&#8221; said Lorenzo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lorenzo described Seiber&#8217;s family as loving and happy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The E-House is planning another dine-and-donate event Sunday. This event will support Seiber&#8217;s family as well as the officer who remains hospitalized after being shot 12 times. His name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The name of the officer who remains in the hospital has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What you can do<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a data-ylk=\"slk:GoFundMe;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-officer-shane-seibers-family?attribution_id=sl:fd400eb2-55df-4f53-bbf4-376347bb4252&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1791763865&amp;utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&amp;utm_content=amp30-control&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> has been started to help support Officer Seiber&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article contains information from interviews conducted at The Eddington House and community members in Bensalem, as well information from the Philadelphia Police Department and previous FOX 29 reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Eddington House in Bensalem held a packed fundraiser Monday to support the family of Philadelphia Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-309806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309806","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=309806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}