{"id":310524,"date":"2026-10-20T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310524\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:20:11","slug":"funeral-services-underway-for-slain-philly-police-officer-shane-seiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310524\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral services underway for slain Philly Police Officer Shane Seiber"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the police officer, husband and father who was killed in the line of duty earlier this month<\/a> in West Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Fellow officers lined up before dawn on Tuesday as Officer Shane Seiber<\/a>\u2019s body arrived at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Center City. A procession transferred him from the funeral home to police headquarters, then the cathedral. <\/p>\n

A horse-drawn carriage carried the officer\u2019s flag-draped casket, escorted by Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel, top police, city officials and Seiber\u2019s colleagues in the 19th District.<\/p>\n

A public viewing at the cathedral will be followed by words of remembrance, final police honors, a funeral service, and private interment.<\/p>\n

The night before, mourning officers filed into Givnish Funeral Home in Northeast Philadelphia beneath a half-mast flag to say their goodbyes. Bethel said this is the most difficult part of the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gets harder. When I came on the job as a young kid, I worked with my colleagues. But today when I see these men and women \u2014 they\u2019re my children, many of them \u2014 and so it takes on a different layer for me now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The 19th Police District alone has seen five cops shot this year, including Seiber. The 40-year-old was shot three times early in the morning on Oct. 10 while he and his partner, Hector Rodriguez, were responding to a call about an armed man on a porch in West Philly. Rodriguez was also shot and seriously wounded. He is critical but stable in the hospital; Bethel said he\u2019s doing well.<\/p>\n

The alleged gunman, 25-year-old Eric Lewis<\/a>, is charged with murder, attempted homicide and other offenses.<\/p>\n

Seiber spent 10 years on the force. Before that, he was a combat veteran in the Air Force. He is survived by his wife and two young children.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/ Officer Shane Seiber\u2019s family GoFundMe <\/p>\n

The Fraternal Order of Police and Philadelphia Police Department have set up fundraisers<\/a> through the Police and Fire Credit Union.<\/p>\n

“This is why we come out in such a way, to make sure his family knows that he was loved, that he was appreciated, and that we will continue to support his family moving forward,” Bethel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the police officer, husband and father who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18647,2327,69,71,70,595,124987],"class_list":["post-310524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-funeral","tag-northeast-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police-department","tag-shane-seiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310524","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=310524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}