{"id":312093,"date":"2026-10-22T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312093\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:30:12","slug":"eric-lewis-man-accused-of-shooting-2-philadelphia-police-officers-indicted-by-federal-grand-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312093\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Lewis, man accused of shooting 2 Philadelphia police officers, indicted by federal grand jury"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — The man accused of shooting two Philadelphia police officers<\/a>, leaving one dead and another seriously injured, has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.<\/p>\n

The indictment of 35-year-old Eric Lewis was announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/p>\n

The five federal charges include interference with interstate commerce by robbery, also known as Hobbs Act robbery, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said.<\/p>\n

Lewis is also charged with using, carrying and discharging a firearm during a violent crime, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a stolen firearm and theft of a firearm.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Lewis faces a maximum of life in prison and a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Lewis was already charged with murder, attempted murder, and numerous other offenses.<\/p>\n

\"Fallen<\/p>\n

Fallen Philadelphia police officer Shane Seiber<\/p>\n

The shooting happened in the early morning hours of Saturday, Oct. 10.<\/p>\n

Police allege Lewis ambushed officers Shane Seiber and Hector Rodriguez, killing Seiber and wounding Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Lewis then allegedly stole Rodriguez’s gun before fleeing. He is accused of shooting at other officers while trying to escape.<\/p>\n

VIDEO: Watch the full funeral service for Sgt. Shane Seiber<\/p>\n

Seiber’s posthumous promotion to sergeant was announced during his funeral earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay with Action News and 6abc.com as this story develops.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — The man accused of shooting two Philadelphia police officers, leaving one dead and another seriously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[127582,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-312093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-127582","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312093","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=312093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}