{"id":313510,"date":"2026-10-24T17:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313510\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T17:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:50:13","slug":"a-man-philadelphia-police-shot-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313510\/","title":{"rendered":"A man Philadelphia Police shot died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary   \">A man who was shot multiple times by Philadelphia police officers has died, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary   \">On Friday around 5:20 p.m., officers responded to a 911 call about a man with a gun on the highway, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary   \">When police arrived on Funston Street in <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/west-philly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Philadelphia<\/a>\u2019s Mill Creek neighborhood, they encountered a man holding a handgun to his head, Deputy Commissioner John Stanford <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/crime\/west-philly-mill-creek-man-shot-by-police-20261023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/crime\/west-philly-mill-creek-man-shot-by-police-20261023.html\">said Friday<\/a> at a news conference. Police secured the area while additional officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p type-interstitial text-primary\">\u00bb READ MORE: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-link-type=\"interstitial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/crime\/west-philly-mill-creek-man-shot-by-police-20261023.html\" class=\"no-underline text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\">Man shot by police in West Philly<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary   \">Police attempted to talk with the 37-year-old man for about 15 minutes, Stanford said. But when the man pointed his gun at them, seven officers, including three supervisors, shot at him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary   \">\u201cResponding officers discharged their firearms, striking the male multiple times,\u201d police said Saturday. The man was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary   \">Police had earlier that day responded to a domestic dispute involving the man and his significant other, Stanford said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary   \">Police did not release the man\u2019s name. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary   \">The responding officers will be placed on administrative duty while an internal investigation takes place, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary   \">Staff writer Robert Moran contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min A man who was shot multiple times by Philadelphia police officers has died,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128033,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-313510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-man-philadelphia-police-shot-died","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313510","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=313510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}