{"id":107973,"date":"2025-07-31T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107973\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:25:14","slug":"arrest-made-in-july-2024-mass-shooting-at-west-philadelphia-block-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107973\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in July 2024 mass shooting at West Philadelphia block party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-philadelphia-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Marshals have arrested a man wanted in connection with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/shooting-carroll-park-west-philadelphia-alden-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">mass shooting at a block party<\/a> in West Philadelphia last summer that left three men dead and six injured.<\/p>\n<p>Amir Jones, 32, was captured Thursday morning in the 4900 block of Kershaw Street after more than a year on the run, according to the U.S. Marshals Service in Philadelphia. Jones was wanted for three counts of homicide, the federal law enforcement agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The mass shooting happened on July 21, 2024, in the 1200 block of North Alden Street, off Girard Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was allegedly involved in a deadly gun battle between two groups during a neighborhood block party, U.S. Marshals said. Three men were killed, including two brothers, and six other people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, multiple shooters pulled guns after an argument at the block party turned physical. Gunshots were fired shortly before 2 a.m. on the street in West Philadelphia&#8217;s Carroll Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a 33-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, and two other men died at local hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Cherelle Parker said last summer that no block party permit was issued for the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is it important to go through that [permit] process?&#8221; Parker said after the shooting. &#8220;Because when you do, the leadership of our respective police districts, they then know that there is a propensity for a large gathering to occur on blocks where permits have been issued.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/tom-dougherty\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom  Dougherty<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Tom Dougherty is a digital content producer for CBS Philadelphia. Before joining CBS Philadelphia, Tom covered sports for NBC Sports Philadelphia. He currently covers breaking news and sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Philadelphia Live U.S. Marshals have arrested a man wanted in connection with a\u00a0mass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,29229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32611],"class_list":{"0":"post-107973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mass-shooting","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-west-philadelphia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114948782909610372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}