{"id":323289,"date":"2026-11-07T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323289\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T20:42:10","slug":"norristown-police-officers-shoot-kill-armed-man-da-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323289\/","title":{"rendered":"Norristown police officers shoot, kill armed man, DA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Norristown, Pennsylvania, shot and killed a person Friday night, the Montgomery County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were on the scene around 9 p.m. at the corner of Stanbridge and West Airy streets.<\/p>\n<p>The officers encountered a man who was holding a large knife, and the man made threats before advancing toward the officers, DA Kevin Steele said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The officers then opened fire with their service weapons. Their shots hit the man, and the officers attempted to render aid. Still, he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No officers were injured and the man&#8217;s identity has not been publicly released.<\/p>\n<p>County detectives are investigating the shooting according to protocol for officer-involved shootings in the county.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Norristown, Pennsylvania, shot and killed a person Friday night, the Montgomery County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[200,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-323289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323289","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=323289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}