{"id":202681,"date":"2025-09-05T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202681\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:50:10","slug":"man-accused-of-fatally-shooting-80-year-old-mother-in-her-philadelphia-home-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202681\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of fatally shooting 80-year-old mother in her Philadelphia home: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bell.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Luke Bell, 48, is accused of fatally shooting his 80-year-old mother in the head. <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> &#8211; A Philadelphia man is accused of fatally shooting his 80-year-old mother in the head inside her home on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Luke Bell, 48, was charged with murder and weapons crimes.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to a home on the 1600 block of Tulpehocken Street for reports of an unresponsive person.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Police found 80-year-old Crystal Bell suffering from a fatal gunshot wound to the head and pronounced her dead at the property.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Investigators believe that the victim&#8217;s son, 48-year-old Luke Bell, was responsible for the murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Authorities say a weapon found on Bell at the time of his arrest matched the caliber cartridge found at the murder scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Bell was charged with murder, weapons offenses and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Luke Bell, 48, is accused of fatally shooting his 80-year-old mother in the head. PHILADELPHIA &#8211; A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,6082,50,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-202681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115152487977162345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202681","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=202681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}