Philadelphia Police have arrested and charged two men in connection with a shooting in North Philadelphia that left a man dead.<\/p>\n
Edward Hobson, 36, of Willow Grove, and Anthony Roberts of Philadelphia were arrested and charged, Oct. 22, 2026, after investigators tied them to a deadly shooting that occurred in North Philly on Oct. 19, 2026.<\/p>\n
In that incident, officers responded to the 2300 block of North 16th Street on a report of a person with a gun to find 53-year-old Saud Clark after he had suffered a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n
Clark was transported to a nearby hospital where he was initially listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The following day, at approximately 6:31 p.m., Clark was pronounced dead at the hospital. <\/p>\n
Hobson and Roberts have been charged with murder, weapon violations, recklessly endangering another person, and other offenses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Police have arrested and charged two men in connection with a shooting in North Philadelphia that left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[221,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-317817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317817","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=317817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}