{"id":48390,"date":"2025-11-30T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48390\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:02:08","slug":"woman-hospitalized-after-police-involved-shooting-in-north-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/48390\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman hospitalized after police-involved shooting in North Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/woman-hospitalized-following-police-involved-shooting-north-philadelphia\/18229549\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6abc<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting that critically injured a woman in North Philadelphia.\n<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred just before 4:15 a.m. Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to reports of a person with a gun in the 900 block of Erie Avenue.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officers found a 35-year-old woman holding a firearm to her head.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police say the woman ignored commands to drop the weapon.\n<\/p>\n<p>One officer deployed his taser, which struck the woman, but had no effect.\n<\/p>\n<p>The woman then fled across Erie Avenue, and pointed the firearm in the direction of police.\n<\/p>\n<p>Two officers then discharged their weapons, striking the woman multiple times.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers transported the woman to Temple University Hospital, where she remains in critical condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>A handgun, with a removed serial number, was recovered at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>The woman is currently being charged with Aggravated Assault on Police and Violations of the Uniform Firearms Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>No officers or other civilians were injured.\n<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is under review by the PPD\u2019s Officer Involved Shooting Investigation Unit, PPD\u2019s Internal Affairs Bureau, and by the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office.\n<\/p>\n<p>Per departmental policy, the officers who discharged their weapons have been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of the investigation.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story originally appeared on 6abc. The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting that critically injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2153,69,71,70,2157],"class_list":{"0":"post-48390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-6abc","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-police-shootings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48390","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=48390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}