{"id":698535,"date":"2026-04-02T01:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/698535\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:42:11","slug":"police-say-son-killed-mom-before-turning-gun-on-himself-in-north-park-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/698535\/","title":{"rendered":"Police say son killed mom before turning gun on himself in North Park shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego police on Wednesday identified a 51-year-old son believed to have fatally shot his 83-year-old mother before turning the gun on himself in a murder-suicide\u00a0last week\u00a0at the North Park home they shared.<\/p>\n<p>Galen Sherwood is suspected of shooting his mother Virginia Sherwood on San Marcos Avenue near Kalmia Street on March 23, said police Acting Lt. Christopher Leahy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/03\/24\/one-person-dead-another-seriously-injured-in-north-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Neighbors reported<\/a> hearing multiple gunshots coming from the home, and said a man with a gunshot wound to his head was on the porch of the house, Leahy said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found Galen Sherwood on the porch and began performing life-saving measures, investigators said. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>Police then found Virginia Sherwood inside the home with a gunshot to her upper torso, Leahy said. She died before she could be taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A firearm was recovered at the scene and will be tested by the department\u2019s crime lab.<\/p>\n<p>Further details about the shooting were not available Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego police on Wednesday identified a 51-year-old son believed to have fatally shot his 83-year-old mother before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,1370,728,50,20881,3549,3550,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-698535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-north-park","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-county","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698535","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=698535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}