{"id":71265,"date":"2025-12-27T00:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71265\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:06:06","slug":"father-shoots-mother-of-his-children-then-himself-in-upper-darby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71265\/","title":{"rendered":"Father shoots mother of his children, then himself in Upper Darby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are investigating after a 45-year-old man allegedly shot and killed the mother of his children following a Christmas visit on Friday in Upper Darby Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting happened inside a car in front of three children, ages 6, 4, and 1, along the 200 block of Copley Road, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the 34-year-old woman was picking up two of the children she shared with the alleged gunman when he opened fire. The woman was found inside the vehicle.<\/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\">Officers say the man then turned the gun on himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene. The father is hospitalized in critical condition, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The circumstances leading up to the shooting remain under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after a 45-year-old man allegedly shot and killed the mother of his children following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[734,37439,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-71265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-children","tag-christmas-visit","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71265","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=71265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}