{"id":25066,"date":"2018-04-12T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=25066"},"modified":"2018-04-12T09:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T13:05:28","slug":"suspects-sought-in-fatal-w-chester-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=25066","title":{"rendered":"Suspect sought in fatal W. Chester shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/PoliceTape-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6925\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/PoliceTape-1-341x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Authorities are seeking information about a fatal shooting that took place at a borough social club, Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Brown, 26, suffered a fatal gunshot wound at the Star Social Club on East Market Street just after 9 p.m. Tuesday night. Brown was found on the scene by police with a chest wound and transported to Paoli Hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Although authorities do not have a suspect in custody, they said they expect to find the shooter in short order.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">&#8220;This was a senseless killing of a young man,&#8221; Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said. &#8220;Most of the action <span class=\"s7\">inside<\/span> and outside the Star Social Club was captured on video. Those <span class=\"s7\">involved <\/span>should tum themselves into the police immediately and peacefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reports of the shooting initially caused some concern at West Chester University, which is just a few blocks from the scene of the crime \u2014 but local police said it is normal procedure to make sure university authorities are alerted to incidents near the campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s7\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;Our officers responded immediately to secure the scene and begin the investigation,&#8221; West Chester Police Chief Scott Bohn said. &#8220;Although this type of violence is rare in West Chester, we are always prepared<span class=\"s20\">. <\/span>Even though this crime <span class=\"s7\">took <\/span>place some distance from West Chester University and did not involve the University, we still alerted school authorities pursuant to our usual protocols.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">This in an ongoing <span class=\"s12\">investigation<\/span><span class=\"s21\">. <\/span>Anybody with <span class=\"s22\">any further <\/span>information <span class=\"s22\">should <\/span>contact West Chester Detective Scott Whiteside <span class=\"s22\">at <\/span>(610) <span class=\"s22\">696-2700 <\/span>or Chester County Detective Maurice Nadachowski <span class=\"s22\">at <\/span>(610) <span class=\"s22\">344<\/span><span class=\"s23\">&#8211;<\/span>6866.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014 Authorities are seeking information about a fatal shooting that took place at a borough social club, Tuesday evening. Eric Brown, 26, suffered a fatal gunshot wound at the Star Social Club on East Market Street just after 9 p.m. Tuesday night. Brown was found on the scene by police with a chest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6269,1146,3178,637],"class_list":["post-25066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-homicide","tag-shooting","tag-west-chester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25069,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066\/revisions\/25069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}