{"id":319791,"date":"2026-11-02T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319791\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:28:08","slug":"man-charged-with-shooting-killing-teen-in-philadelphia-on-halloween-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319791\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with shooting, killing teen in Philadelphia on Halloween, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 40-year-old man has been charged with shooting and killing a teenage boy in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-shootings-halloween-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Port Richmond on Halloween night<\/a>, Philadelphia police said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Goodrich Jr. was charged with murder and related offenses in the shooting death of 15-year-old Devin Davenport on the 3600 block of Richmond Street Saturday night, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davenport was allegedly shot in the back by Goodrich on Saturday just before 7 p.m. Police said on Halloween night that Goodrich was shot at the Sunoco, and he ran a half block before collapsing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After he collapsed, two Good Samaritans tried performing life-saving measures on Davenport. Police said the two people were medical professionals and noticed commotion surrounding the teen driving on Richmond Street. The teen was then taken to St. Christopher&#8217;s Hospital for Children by officers, where he was pronounced dead around 7:15 p.m., police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Goodrich was taken into custody not long after the shooting outside a residence on the 3700 block of Richmond Street without incident, according to police. Officers also found a firearm, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A motive for the shooting is unclear at this time, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said on the night of the shooting that the incident was captured on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 40-year-old man has been charged with shooting and killing a teenage boy in Port Richmond on Halloween&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,69,71,70,26503],"class_list":["post-319791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-port-richmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319791","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=319791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}