{"id":99456,"date":"2026-01-29T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99456\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:29:09","slug":"shooter-steals-bike-guns-down-man-walking-in-southwest-philadelphia-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99456\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooter steals bike, guns down man walking in Southwest Philadelphia: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are searching for a suspect who stole a bicycle from a SEPTA bus and then killed a man in Southwest Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened around 10 p.m. Wednesday along the 6600 block of Dicks Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the male suspect exited a SEPTA bus and stole a bike off the front rack. He then allegedly biked up to a man walking on the street and shot him multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It looks like the victim was walking along Dicks Avenue when another male dressed in all black walked up behind him and fired multiple times into his back,&#8221; said Inspector D.F. Pace. &#8220;After that victim fell to the ground, the shooter fired several more shots into the victim and then ran off.&#8221;<\/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\">The victim died at an area hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the suspect fled on foot down S. Daggett Street, where he stole an electric scooter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A further description of the shooter has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to call police at 215-686-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a suspect who stole a bicycle from a SEPTA bus and then killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,29125,2653],"class_list":["post-99456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-septa-bus","tag-southwest-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99456","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=99456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}