{"id":75975,"date":"2026-01-02T04:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75975\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:25:27","slug":"3-year-old-boy-shot-inside-west-philadelphia-home-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75975\/","title":{"rendered":"3-year-old boy shot inside West Philadelphia home: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ang5qaji4o1kzwew.jpg\" alt=\"3-year-old boy shot in West Philadelphia\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A young boy is recovering after a shooting incident inside his home in West Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police were called to the 900 block of North 42nd Street just before 5:00 p.m. after reports of a shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The incident occurred in a back bedroom where the boy lives with his father and his father&#8217;s girlfriend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The child&#8217;s father took him to the hospital, where he is reported to be in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators believe the shooting was accidental, but they are unsure of the exact circumstances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">They have not determined who was holding the gun when it fired.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: \u00a0Information from the Philadelphia Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A young boy is recovering after a shooting incident inside his home in West Philadelphia.\u00a0 What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-75975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75975","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=75975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}