{"id":315773,"date":"2026-10-28T02:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315773\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T02:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:22:07","slug":"man-found-shot-in-the-head-after-barricade-in-philly-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315773\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found shot in the head after barricade in Philly \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man wearing a mask and gloves died after getting shot in the head inside a home where narcotics were also found. <\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to 911 calls for gunshots heard at the 6100 block of Colgate Street in Philly&#8217;s Crescentville neighborhood at around 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small. <\/p>\n<p>Officers checked the front and then went around to the back of the house, where they found a door open and saw a gun laying on a pool table along with a man laying on the ground. <\/p>\n<p>SWAT and police drones swept the house before investigators went inside, where they found a man, who was identified as a John Doe is believed to be in his 20s, laying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head while wearing a mask and gloves, Small said. <\/p>\n<p>The man was pronounced dead at the scene and no other persons were found in the home, but the shooting is being investigated as a homicide. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the shooting was related to narcotics and drug paraphernalia found throughout the home, Small said. <\/p>\n<p>No description of a suspect was available. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information on the incident is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-TIPS (8477) or anonymously<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillypolice.com\/forms\/submit-a-tip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> online here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man wearing a mask and gloves died after getting shot in the head inside a home where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-315773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315773","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=315773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}