{"id":417605,"date":"2025-12-01T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417605\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:59:15","slug":"philadelphia-police-release-name-of-woman-killed-by-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417605\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police release name of woman killed by officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Christina Miranda was <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia\/women-shot-bypolice-philadelphia-20251130.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia\/women-shot-bypolice-philadelphia-20251130.html\">shot and killed<\/a> by two Philadelphia police officers early Sunday morning, authorities said, after she held a gun to her head, then turned the weapon on the officers. Her name was released Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Police were called just after 4 a.m. Sunday to the 900 block of W. Erie Avenue, where they found 35-year-old Miranda with a .22-caliber handgun. The officers ordered her to drop the weapon and used a Taser on her, according to police, but she fled. As she ran, they said, she pointed the gun at the officers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia\/women-shot-bypolice-philadelphia-20251130.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia\/women-shot-bypolice-philadelphia-20251130.html\">officers fired<\/a> at Miranda, striking her multiple times, according to police. She was taken to <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/temple-university\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Temple University<\/a> Hospital, where she later died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The two officers involved in the shooting \u2014 both on the force for less than three years \u2014 have been placed on desk duty, as is customary, pending an investigation by the police department and the Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christina Miranda was shot and killed by two Philadelphia police officers early Sunday morning, authorities said, after she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,195611,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-417605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-police-shooting-victim-name","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115645380358772543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417605","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=417605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}