{"id":322313,"date":"2026-11-06T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322313\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T10:52:09","slug":"lansdowne-police-id-suspect-wanted-for-murder-of-18-year-old-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322313\/","title":{"rendered":"Lansdowne police ID suspect wanted for murder of 18-year-old \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

An arrest warrant was issued for a man police said killed 18-year-old Richard Nelson DeShield<\/a>, who was a student at Penn Wood High School. <\/p>\n

Police are searching for Amir Eskridge, 21, who has been charged with DeShield’s murder. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tLansdowne Police DepartmentLansdowne Police Department<\/p>\n

The deadly shooting occurred on Sept. 8, around 10:30 p.m., a Lansdowne police officer was in the area of North Wycombe and Blackburn avenues when he spotted two men standing near a vehicle. The officer then heard multiple gunshots and spotted a vehicle leaving the area.<\/p>\n

The vehicle traveled about a half a block before crashing into a tree and the two men the officer had initially spotted fled on foot into a nearby apartment building, investigators said.<\/p>\n

Responding police officers found DeShield suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside the crashed vehicle. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

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Richard Nelson DeShield <\/p>\n

Officers searched the apartment building immediately after the shooting, and found Eskridge “hiding in a basement electrical room. However, he was questioned and released at the time. <\/p>\n

Now, police are urging anyone who sees Eskridge or knows of his whereabouts to contact the Lansdowne Police Department at 610-623-0700 or e-mail Sgt. Miller at mmiller@lansdowneborough.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arrest warrant was issued for a man police said killed 18-year-old Richard Nelson DeShield, who was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-322313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322313","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=322313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}