{"id":94225,"date":"2026-01-23T02:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94225\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:49:06","slug":"lackawanna-county-man-sentenced-for-attempted-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94225\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County man sentenced for attempted homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Walsh was sentenced for shooting his wife at their home in Spring Brook Township in February last year.<\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A man could spend up to two decades behind bars after shooting his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/article\/news\/local\/lackawanna-county\/police-investigate-late-night-shooting-two-people-in-lackawanna-county-springbrook-township\/523-14b0e8bb-e5ba-46fd-adfe-6fcdb97b9b8d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">last year<\/a> in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>James Walsh shot his wife in the face in their Spring Brook Township home in February last year during a domestic dispute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at their home, Walsh was seen on a couch with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was eventually taken into custody after being taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh was sentenced to 13.5 to 27 years in state prison for attempted homicide charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Walsh was sentenced for shooting his wife at their home in Spring Brook Township in February last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-94225","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\/94225","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=94225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}