{
  "id": 13522563,
  "title": "Man with gun kills one Philadelphia police officer and injures another",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/man-with-gun-kills-one-philadelphia-police-officer-and-injures-another",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-10T20:12:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/philadelphia-police-officer-killed"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In a tragic incident on Saturday morning, Philadelphia police officer Shane Seiber was killed while responding to a report of a man with a gun. The 40-year-old veteran of the Philadelphia police department had served for 10 years when he was shot and killed early in the morning in West Philadelphia. The other officer who responded to the scene was wounded and transported to Penn Presbyterian medical center, where he underwent surgery and is currently listed in stable condition. Authorities identified the suspect as Eric Lewis, a 35-year-old employee of Philadelphia’s municipal water department. Governor Josh Shapiro ordered flags to be flown at half-mast in honor of Seiber, who leaves behind his wife and two children, a seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl. Seiber is now the 129th Philadelphia police department officer to lose his life to gunfire since 1851, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, a site that honors US law enforcement personnel who died while on duty.",
  "summary": "10-year police veteran Shane Seiber was killed after responding to a report of a man with a gun A Philadelphia police officer was fatally shot and another was wounded on Saturday after responding to a report of a man with a gun, authorities said. Shane Seiber, 40, was killed early on Saturday morning in West Philadelphia, according to the city’s police commissioner, Kevin Bethel. Continue…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Philadelphia police officer killed, another injured after responding to reports of man with a gun",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/philadelphia-police-officer-killed-another-injured-after-responding",
        "published": "2026-10-10T18:44:02.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}