{"id":65865,"date":"2025-07-14T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65865\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:21:10","slug":"man-70-killed-in-west-philadelphia-attempted-carjacking-metro-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65865\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 70, killed in West Philadelphia attempted carjacking \u2013 Metro Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JADEN KELLY \/ METRO FILE<\/p>\n

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A 70-year-old man was fatally shot during an attempted carjacking Sunday evening in West Philadelphia<\/a>, police said.\n<\/p>\n

Carmen Suero Jr., who lived in the Drexel Hill area of Delaware County, was found suffering from a gunshot wound to his back just after 5 p.m. on the 300 block of N. 63rd Street, according to authorities. He died a short time later at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.<\/p>\n

Investigators believe the killing happened while the gunman was trying to steal Suero\u2019s vehicle, PPD officials said.\n<\/p>\n

Through Monday, no arrests had been made. Anyone with information is asked to call or text the police tip line<\/a> at 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n

Since the start of the year, 122 homicides have been documented in Philadelphia, down nearly 12% from the same date in 2024, according to PPD data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Counseling, peer support, and victim advocacy services are available for victims, family members, and others affected by gun violence. Go to\u00a0metrophiladelphia.com\/gun-violence-resources<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JADEN KELLY \/ METRO FILE A 70-year-old man was fatally shot during an attempted carjacking Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,19286,4222,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32611],"class_list":{"0":"post-65865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-carjacking","10":"tag-gun-violence","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","20":"tag-west-philadelphia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114853687056603659","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65865","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=65865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}