{"id":39727,"date":"2025-11-20T15:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/39727\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:44:41","slug":"man-critically-hurt-after-being-shot-in-southwest-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/39727\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critically hurt after being shot in Southwest Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man is in critical condition after being shot in Southwest Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday in the 1400 block of S. Vodges Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the victim showed up to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the chest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When police arrived at the scene of the shooting, they found 30 shell casings and several bullets that had hit a nearby home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several adults and children were inside the home when some of the bullets went through the front door and windows, but no one else was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say they believe this is a targeted shooting but are unsure if the victim was the intended target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are checking surveillance cameras on the block for more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So far, there are no suspects and no motive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in critical condition after being shot in Southwest Philadelphia. It happened around 1:30 a.m. on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5993,3907,69,71,70,15759,2653],"class_list":["post-39727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-critical-condition","tag-gunshot-wound","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shell-casings","tag-southwest-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39727","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=39727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}