{"id":58637,"date":"2025-07-12T04:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/58637\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T04:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:05:13","slug":"security-guard-arrested-in-connection-with-south-philadelphia-night-club-mass-shooting-that-injured-8-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/58637\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard arrested in connection with South Philadelphia night club mass shooting that injured 8, police say"},"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>Police arrested a man in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/mass-shooting-philadelphia-passyunk\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">mass shooting at a South Philadelphia bar on the July 4 weekend<\/a> that injured eight people.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Welton, 43, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, possessing an instrument of crime, and recklessly endangering another person, Philadelphia police said in a release Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Eight people were shot at 7 elements restaurant and bar on 11th Street and Washington Avenue on July 5. Everyone is reported in stable conditon.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Welton turned himself in to police and he was working as a security guard at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigation reveals that an argument outside the bar escalated into a fight involving knives, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The release states shots were fired on the balcony as the security guard attempted to intervene, which caused people to flee. The security guard also admitted to discharging a gun, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe the motive for the shooting stems from the initial argument that escalated.<\/p>\n<p>This shooting remains an active and ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/taleisha-newbill\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taleisha  Newbill<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Taleisha Newbill is a digital content producer at CBS Philadelphia. Taleisha has previously worked at NBC affiliate WOWT and FOX 42\/KPTM in Omaha, Nebraska. She covers breaking news, crime, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Philadelphia Live Police arrested a man in connection with the mass shooting at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,4219,29229,1448,2830,1311,101,11590,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-58637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-mass-shooting","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-shooting","15":"tag-south-philadelphia","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114838288890213527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637","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=58637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}