{"id":313933,"date":"2026-10-25T11:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T11:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313933\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T11:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T11:52:24","slug":"police-searching-for-gunman-who-killed-cheltenham-twp-walmart-employee-in-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313933\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for gunman who killed Cheltenham Twp. Walmart employee in parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Montgomery County authorities are investigating after a Walmart employee was shot and killed Wednesday night outside the Cheltenham Township store.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before 11:30 p.m. at the Walmart in the Cedarbrook Plaza Shopping Center on Easton Road.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said 45-year-old Latosha Ann Cooper had just finished her shift and was in the parking lot when she was shot by a masked gunman.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The store remains closed as police investigate. Walmart said mental health resources are available for employees as they grieve the loss of one of their colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Montgomery County Detectives at 610-278-3368 or Cheltenham police at 215-885-1600, ext. 499, or anonymously at ext. 777. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Montgomery County authorities are investigating after a Walmart employee was shot and killed Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,200,69,71,70,220,23258],"class_list":["post-313933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime","tag-montgomery-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shooting","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313933","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=313933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}