{"id":57476,"date":"2025-12-10T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57476\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:57:07","slug":"two-killed-one-critically-wounded-in-stabbing-at-downtown-scranton-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57476\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed, one critically wounded in stabbing at downtown Scranton apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2025-12-09\/scranton-police-investigating-multiple-stabbing-at-hotel-jermyn-in-downtown-scranton\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stabbed three women in a downtown Scranton apartment building Tuesday evening<\/a>, killing two and critically injuring the other, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police took the suspect into custody outside the Hotel Jermyn Apartments on Biden Street.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the suspect and victims have not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher called the murder scene inside the apartment building \u201cone of the &#8230; most horrific scenes\u201d he\u2019s ever encountered. <\/p>\n<p>Gallagher declined to provide further details, but he and police plan a 2 p.m. news conference to release more informatiom.<\/p>\n<p>The killings occurred shortly after 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple police cars remained stationed outside the building late Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect stabbed three women in a downtown Scranton apartment building Tuesday evening, killing two and critically injuring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-57476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57476","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=57476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}