{"id":42782,"date":"2025-05-27T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42782"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T02:07:58","slug":"two-dead-nine-injured-in-memorial-day-shooting-in-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42782","title":{"rendered":"Two dead, nine injured in Memorial Day shooting in Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Two people were killed and nine others, including three teenagers, injured in a shooting at Philadelphia\u2019s Fairmount Park on Memorial Day, police said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">All the nine injured in the Monday night shooting are in stable condition. A male and a female, both adults, were the deceased victims, a police officer told a media briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A large number of adults were present at the park, according to the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We have not recovered any weapons at this time,&#8221; the officer said. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;This is significant. It&#8217;s Memorial Day&#8230; we understand the significance of this event and we will make sure to provide an update on Tuesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Memorial Day, traditionally observed on the last Monday of May, is a federal holiday in the United States dedicated to honoring and mourning military personnel who have died in the performance of their duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/two-dead-nine-shot-philadelphias-fairmount-park-wpvi-news-reports-2025-05-27\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Two people were killed and nine others, including three teenagers, injured in a shooting at Philadelphia\u2019s Fairmount Park on Memorial Day, police said on Tuesday. All the nine injured in the Monday night shooting are in stable condition. A male and a female, both adults, were the deceased victims, a police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[5088,2339,1237,1530],"class_list":["post-42782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-memorial-day","tag-philadelphia","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42784,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42782\/revisions\/42784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}