An Allentown man has been convicted for his role in a 2022 ambush killing in the city.<\/p>\n
Xavier Grenon, 27, was found guilty by a jury Friday on charges of conspiracy to commit homicide, attempted homicide and one count of aggravated assault in the shooting that killed Najeer Lane, 22<\/a>, according to Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan<\/p>\n Grenon faces a maximum sentence of 60 years in state prison and is scheduled to be sentenced in April.<\/p>\n The trial lasted five days before Lehigh County Judge Thomas M. Caffrey.<\/p>\n Grenon\u2019s co-defendants in the case are Frederick Antwan Marks Jr., 26, and Legious Robert Minder Jr., 23.\u00a0Marks is still awaiting trial while Minder pleaded guilty<\/a> to third-degree murder and other charges and was sentenced to serve 40 to 80 years in state prison.<\/p>\n According to authorities, Lane was riding in a car driven by Bless Jones, whom the three defendants agreed to meet at Trout Creek Park in Allentown on Aug. 31, 2022.<\/p>\n The defendants allegedly ambushed Lane and Jones while they were traveling to the park. Lane died from a gunshot wound, authorities said.<\/p>\n Jones escaped to his home, where the defendants later arrived and allegedly fired 12 rounds at Jones and another unnamed person. They missed both of them, authorities said.<\/p>\n Lane\u2019s death<\/a> occurred five years after his brother Parris<\/a> was shot and killed in Allentown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man has been convicted for his role in a 2022 ambush killing in the city. Xavier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,46,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-107957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-courts","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}