It happened last Friday.<\/a><\/p>\nCoroner Daniel Buglio ruled their deaths homicides from multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
The victims, 44-year-old Ada Ortiz and 1-year-old Sebastian Serrano Jr., were not the only ones shot at, Holihan says.<\/p>\n
“He aimed a gun at another child who was in the home, a 7-year-old male,” Holihan said.<\/p>\n
Holihan says Ada Ortiz’s husband jumped in front of that child, taking the bullet. Both survived; the husband had non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Cartagena faces charges of two counts each of homicide, attempted homicide, and aggravated assault, as well as one count of burglary and two firearm-related felonies.<\/p>\n
The DA says officials don’t yet know whether the suspect knew the victims ahead of time.<\/p>\n
“That’s still part of an ongoing investigation,” Holihan said. “But I think, you know, the facts kind of speak for themselves. When someone is shot and killed, that they’re being at least targeted to some extent.”<\/p>\n
Holihan had said officials didn’t know where Cartagena was, prior to him turning himself in Thursday night.<\/p>\n
“If we did, we would have gone and gotten him,” Holihan said.<\/p>\n
Federal agencies were working to make sure he didn’t go far.<\/p>\n
“We’ve involved [the Department of] Homeland Security in an effort to restrict his ability to travel,” Holihan said.<\/p>\n
Holihan says the man is from Allentown.<\/p>\n
“We are eager to take Mr. Cartagena into custody and have him face justice, given the nature of this offense,” Holihan said.<\/p>\n
But at the time, fearing the community would try to apprehend the suspect, who had been considered armed and dangerous, Holihan wouldn’t give out too much information about where Cartagena could have been.<\/p>\n
Holihan also said robbery was not a motive to the homicides, and nothing of value was stolen from the home during the shootings, to officials’ knowledge.<\/p>\n
Cartagena will be taken for arraignment on his charges and will face further action through the court, city police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – A double homicide suspect has turned himself in to authorities as of Thursday night. Gabriel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,805],"class_list":["post-110854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110854","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=110854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}