{"id":312490,"date":"2026-10-23T05:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312490\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T05:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T05:26:21","slug":"walmart-employee-shot-and-killed-after-work-in-cheltenham-pennsylvania-da-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312490\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart employee shot and killed after work in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, DA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Walmart employee was fatally shot after her shift at the Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, store on Wednesday night, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Latosha Ann Cooper, 45, was shot and killed around 11:30 p.m. after finishing her shift at the store on Easton Road in Glenside, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said in a statement released Thursday. The masked shooter allegedly shot Cooper near her car, Steele said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to call Montgomery County detectives at 610-278-3368 or Cheltenham police at 215-885-1600 ext. 499 or ext. 777.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was scheduled for Thursday, the DA said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Walmart employee was fatally shot after her shift at the Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, store on Wednesday night, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40582,200,28,30,29,220],"class_list":["post-312490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-cheltenham","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312490","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=312490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}