{"id":113596,"date":"2025-08-02T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113596\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:04:09","slug":"philadelphia-police-arrest-alleged-rec-center-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113596\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police arrest alleged rec center gunman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/christy-rec-center-west-philadelphia-reopen-5-injured-shooting\/17389365\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6abc<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested the suspected gunman in a shooting earlier this week at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/west-philadelphia-shooting-leaves-least-2-injured-christy-rec-center\/17365787\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a West Philadelphia recreation center<\/a>\u00a0that left five people injured, including several children.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police say a 17-year-old boy turned himself in Friday night. He is facing 13 counts each of aggravated assault, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person, along with related offenses.\n<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened Wednesday at the Christy Recreation Center. Surveillance video shows the alleged gunman and several others arriving at the scene and fleeing after shots were fired.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe a fight may have preceded the shooting.\n<\/p>\n<p>Two children, two 16-year-olds and a rec center employee were injured. A 16-year-old remains in critical condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 215-686-TIPS.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story originally appeared on 6abc. Police have arrested the suspected gunman in a shooting earlier this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[71553,5229,4222,1448,2830,1311,60607,14844,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-113596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-6abc","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-gun-violence","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-gun-violence","15":"tag-philadelphia-police-department","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113596","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=113596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}