{"id":5780,"date":"2026-10-10T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/2-philadelphia-officers-suffer-15-gunshot-wounds\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T08:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T13:03:02","slug":"2-philadelphia-officers-suffer-15-gunshot-wounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/2-philadelphia-officers-suffer-15-gunshot-wounds\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Philadelphia Officers Suffer 15 Gunshot Wounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fry4KD8-mrlw%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Officer shot 12 times, another shot 3 times in West Philadelphia\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ry4KD8-mrlw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> PHILADELPHIA, PA \u2013 October 10, 2026 (STL.News) Two Philadelphia police officers suffered a combined 15 gunshot wounds early Saturday while responding to a report of an armed man in West Philadelphia, prompting a major police operation that ended with a suspect in custody. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said a 33-year-old officer, the father of five children, was shot 12 times. A second officer, 40, who is the father of two children, suffered three gunshot wounds. Both officers were transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where they were taken into surgery. Their medical conditions had not been confirmed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/2-philadelphia-officers-suffer-15-gunshot-wounds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, PA \u2013 October 10, 2026 (STL.News) Two Philadelphia police officers suffered a combined 15 gunshot wounds early Saturday while responding to a report of an armed man in West Philadelphia, prompting a major police operation that ended with a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5782,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5780\/revisions\/5782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}