{"id":311757,"date":"2026-10-22T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311757\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:38:15","slug":"man-killed-in-west-philadelphia-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311757\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in West Philadelphia shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities on Wednesday identified a man gunned down the night before in <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/west-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Cobbs, 36, died a short time after he was shot just after 8 p.m. Tuesday on the 500 block of N. Allison Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials have not detailed a possible motive, and no one has been arrested. Anyone with information is asked to call or text the PPD tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477). Tips can be shared anonymously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillypolice.com\/crime-data\/crime-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Police data<\/a> shows that 143 people have been murdered in Philadelphia, a decrease of about 24% compared to the same point last year.<\/p>\n<p>Counseling, peer support, and victim advocacy services are available for victims, family members, and others affected by gun violence. Go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/stories\/resources-for-victims-of-gun-violence-in-philadelphia,96902\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">metrophiladelphia.com\/gun-violence-resources<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/stories\/three-injured-north-philadelphia-shooting,160113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3 injured, 1 critically, in North Philadelphia shooting, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tKeywords<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tKevin Cobbs,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t West Philadelphia homicide,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t North Allison Street shooting,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Philadelphia police,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Philadelphia gun violence\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities on Wednesday identified a man gunned down the night before in West Philadelphia. Kevin Cobbs, 36, died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[127516,127518,69,63353,71,70,2245,127517],"class_list":["post-311757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-kevin-cobbs","tag-north-allison-street-shooting","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-gun-violence","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police","tag-west-philadelphia-homicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311757","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=311757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}