{"id":323389,"date":"2026-11-08T00:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323389\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T00:40:07","slug":"officers-fatally-shoot-man-with-knife-in-elmwood-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323389\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers fatally shoot man with knife in Elmwood Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man is dead after two officers shot him during a confrontation in Montgomery County Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to our newsgathering partners at NCB10, it all unfolded around 9 p.m. after police received a report of a person trying to set cars on fire along Stanbridge Street in Norristown.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the scene, they found a man holding a large knife in Elmwood Park. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Montgomery County District Attorney\u2019s Office, the man then threatened officers and walked toward them while holding the knife. Officers then fired their guns, striking the man.<\/p>\n<p>The officers tried to render aid, but the man died at the scene. His identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A man is dead after two officers shot him during a confrontation in Montgomery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[131067,200,9905,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-323389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-fatal-officer-involved-shooting","tag-montgomery-county","tag-norristown","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323389","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=323389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}